Looks like a picnic for the fire rescue extrication specialist. Work them Jaws of life. Total all of the vehicles with minor damage so the owner will get a new one.

... I'd rather swim with sharks than drive in ATL... and I am scared shitless of sharks....

you ever see the movie Miracle Mile? worth a look, LA traffic in that movie looks just about like your pic :-)

be well.

That's not too bad... I live in the San Fran Bay Area, during rush hour, they're stacked four high.

The only saving grace, I have a reverse commute, I'm headed out of the area when everyone else is heading in.

Pat, I'm originally from a town near S.F. and drove commuter traffic in the Bay Area often. You just can't imagine how awful Atlanta drivers are! It makes Bay Area traffic seem like a cake walk. Seriously.

I've driven in commuter traffic in Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Nashville, St. Louis, Phoenix and more....nothing is as frightening as Atlanta highways.

The sad part is there ain't no good route north and south nor east and west that doesn't put you somewhere around Atlanta. I have hit it at all hours of the day and night and it is always heavy traffic...what in hell are all those people doing on the road at 3AM

GuyK - They're trying to get to work or get home. They left early to avoid rush hour.

The enviro-nazis stopped construction of a northern arc that would have eliminated some of the traffic from I-285. The nice thing about being retired is not having to deal with Atlanta traffic!

I drove ATL rush hour traffic last winter. My wife still cringes at the mention of it. Rush hour here means the horse walks a little faster.

We tried to tell "Calypso Louie Farrakhan" when he decided to stage a million car driveby this would happen when he announced "Honest Al Sharpton" was in charge of traffic control.

Vicki -

I do have to admit that we have a decent road system out here (in most places). A lot of traffic just because of volume, not lack of roads. The drivers also do tend to know what they're doing. Rush hour drivers that is... we're out there each day, so you get a feel for it. You can always tell someone who doesn't drive through the area all that often - they're the ones causing the accidents (do NOT cut in front of me doing 30mph LESS than I'm doing!, I get cranky)... and get off the damn cell phone!

Worst place around here though has to be Berkeley. 4 lanes of I80 merge with 2 lanes of I580... and result in four lanes. Backup goes for miles. This gets worse as it feeds into the Oakkand / SF Bay Bridge... more freeways merge at that point. Locals fight any attempt to add more lanes. Been through Berkeley at 2am and had traffic. Just plain bad design.

Just the way I remember it. After living there for six months I passed the crown for worst drivers evah from Boston to Hotlanta.

Did anyone stop to think about why traffic has gotten worse? It's the same reason that our population has ballooned to 300 million: immigration. Legal and illegal immigration are not only destroying the cohesion of this country, it's also causing our standard of living to plummet. The number of legal immigrants pouring into the country is about 1.2 million per year. Over a million a year! Add to that the thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, flooding across from Mexico, and you begin to see why the population is exploding, in spite of the absence of a high birth rate amongst those whose familes have been here for generations.

What are these people doing here? Does their presence benefit those of us already here? Do they add, or detract, to America?

Just remember: America is not now, and has never been, a nation of immigrants. America has always been a nation of Americans.

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