Can I rant for a minute?

[J Gallo]

Ok, I just have to rant, and please feel free to chime in and let me know if it's just me or do I have a valid complaint.

Traffic Sucks.

I live in West Jordan, about a mile or so directly north of RAD to be exact. I currently work up near the airport. So my drive to work is fairly easy, just a straight shot up Bangerter Hwy. It's easy enough in the mornings @ 7am, it generally takes me about 20-25 mins depending on how many red lights I catch.

But the afternoon is another story. I usually drive home around 5pm, and the other day I had to go down Bangerter to get home and it took me 50 mins! 10 mins short of 1 hour! To go 11 miles! Now, normally I don't go that way home, for that specific reason. When it started taking me 35-40 mins, I started going out west on 2100 so to take U-111 home (8400 west, Bacchus Road, whatever you want to call it). It adds another 4 or 5 miles to my drive, but it's pretty consistent right at 30 mins every time.

And have you tried to drive by Wal-mart in Jordan Landing on a saturday afternoon? Sheesh!!

Is it just me or is the traffic situation on the west side getting out of hand? When it takes 3 cycles of the light to get through intersections at 4100 so, 4700 south, and 5400 south on Bangerter Hwy, it's getting pretty ridiculous.

But as a whole, we have it pretty easy here in Salt Lake. Check out this story about traffic in other area from CNN.com

Traffic Study

Thanks for listening, I'll roll my window back up now

[bmxkraut]

I'm with Jason on this one .. Jason and I live and work very close together and I have had nothing but headaches with traffic.

The other morning I tried 6200 s eastbound at 6:30am and it took me close to 15 min to get from 2700 w onto redwood road. They had some kind of issue on both the east and west lanes of I-215 so the right 2 lanes were completely bottlenecked. That just caused further delays causing everyone to bypass the freeway and take redwood. A 15 to 20 min commute became 50 min. sick!!

As for homeward commutes, I'm fortunate to end my work day at 4pm. If I leave at 4pm then I can use 5600 w with little problem or delay. However, since 4pm is slim, anything past 4:10 is like Chicago traffic.

I'm at the point of parking a camper in the parking lot at work.

Jason, I'm with ya brother .. it sucks..

[justinsbmxmom]

I use to travel to South Jordan everyday from Kaysville. I would leave an hour before I had to be to work. It gave me just enough time to drop Justin off at preschool and get to work. I moved to Midvale to save time. I live 3 miles from preschool and 6 miles from work. Living closer only saves me 30 minutes. It's crazy. I get off work at 5 and I'm lucky if I get home by 6 after picking up Justin. Traffic is the only thing I do not miss while I sit in this BORING apartment recovering.

[Guest]

backus highway is the best way to get home from 430-530pm the the rest of the time its not to bad but thats the way i get home everyday, and your right it's about 4 miles longer but there is only 3 light all the way from u111 to w. jordan so it saves alot of time. robert and.

[tread]

I moved to Tooele, takes me about 35 min to downtown SLC.

[J Gallo]

hey Rob!

I didn't know you took that way home too. Honk and wave if you see me!

Too bad we couldn't work out some sort of carpool!