Dang rubberneckers!

* My morning commute took an extra fifteen minutes this morning because of traffic. I figured it was most likely an accident some ways ahead on highway 44. Turns out the ‘incident’ happened on the westbound lanes (I, and everyone else was heading east). There was absolutely no reason for the eastbound lanes to slow down whatsoever. Except for the fact that everybody just had to crane their heads around (tapping their brakes in the process), for the chance to witness another human beings’ misfortune. Very sad. Especially since I couldn’t see anything by the time I got there!
General — entered at 15:51PM

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15 minutes? 40 minutes? I would like to invite all of you to try a one week daily commute between the San Gabriel Valley and Irvine Most likely this would mean taking the 5 down to OC, more importantly, taking the “Orange Crush!” down to OC Need not I mention you first need to take the 10 (and maybe 710) to get over to the 5 from SGV! When it’s busy, that can be a half hour right there! But you know, still glad I moved from St. Louis out here instead of going back home to NY. I have gotten used to the traffic out here but I was never able to get used to the NY/NJ obsessions of putting tollbooths on every few miles of highway. What did someone once say about diving in NY/NJ? “I can’t pull out of my own driveway without someone asking me for .35 cents.”Posted Mon Nov 10 21:10:58 CST 2003
From: P. Brahler http://paulbrahler.bravehost.com
Pah, 15 minutes! Once back in the olden days before the new stretch of Hwy 21 was open, I had a bad experience with rubbernecking. There was an accident on northbound (everyone is going southbound in afternoon rush hour) old Hwy 21, about half a mile away from the end of new 21. For anyone who doesn’t know, New 21 is a 4-lane highway and Old 21 is a 2-lane highway. So anyway, traffic was backed up for 2-3 miles on New 21, because of this accident on Old 21. I think it took me an extra 40 mins to get home that day. Come to find out it was a fender bender, by the time I got there there was actually nothing to see but everyone was rubbernecking at the two cars. As soon as you got past that traffic flew. I guess that’s Jefferson county for you. This is why I don’t post about traffic much in my blog. I’d be typing forever about all the annoying rush hour incidents.Posted Mon Nov 10 20:19:37 CST 2003
From: Amber http://ambysjournal.invigorated.org