Reopening of school and traffic rant thread

[DesiPower]

So... schools reopened this week in my area. Traffic is just horrendous. yesterday I left early, anticipating the traffic, left home at 6:55. The line to get on the highway was just unbelievable, it took a full 12 minutes to get on the highway. Then the highway was backed up. Took a a full 45 mins to get to work. Till last week I would leave home around 7:30 and reached work a little before 8:00. Can't imagine how long it would take if I leave for work at 7:30 now. Today's story was almost similar, left home around 6:45 and reached work at 7:20. I adjusted my schedule planing to be at work around 7:00 and leave at 4:30 for the next few weeks, till it clams down a little bit.

Anyone else with similar experience?

 

[rcpratt]

I don't think the main school downtown here has started yet. Not looking forward to it.

What city/school are we talking?

 

[bignateyk]

Yeah. I live in a college town, so I dread when the students all return. The population of our town pretty much doubles over night.

My 2 mile commute to work goes from 5 minutes to 15 minutes.

 

[dainthomas]

Something like a third of all traffic during the school year is parents driving their kids to school.

I could count on one hand the number of times my mom drove me to school in 12 years. Is it just a combination of no school buses and kids too lazy to bike/walk?

 

[BoomerD]

Most of the k-12 schools here started last week. The local community college starts the week before Labor Day.

I kind of miss the "olden days" when schools started the Tuesday after Labor Day.

 

[theflyingpig]

There's a community college where I live, and the traffic increases, then as the semester continues it decreases due to all of the intellectually inferior garbage dropping out of community college. This phenomenon amuses me.

 

[dfuze]

Nope, school doesn't start here for another 2 weeks.
Even when it does I leave for work way before the busses are rolling around.

 

[PingSpike]

Yeah, it hasn't happened yet but it probably will next week. It's horrible. Between the extra cars on the road driving their kids to school and the school buses fanning out to clog every single available road there is no escape. The worst is they staggered schools so going to work later is no escape.

I'm stuck dealing with it as my wife and I carpool and she has a film schedule...but once she's at home I'm going to suck it up and start getting up at 6 to beat the whole mess. And I fucking hate getting up early. But I hate the school buses even more! The worst part is judging by the amount of extra cars, no kids are actually riding in them.

 

[rcpratt]

Are you guys all talking K-12? I'm more bothered by the college traffic on the highways.

 

[Zedtom]

They have been ticketing speeders by the elementary school in my neighborhood. Some of them were mothers of children at the school that were zooming off to get to work after dropping off their kids.

 

[theflyingpig]

They have been ticketing speeders by the elementary school in my neighborhood. Some of them were mothers of children at the school that were zooming off to get to work after dropping off their kids.

More government coddling of our youth. Kids need to learn at a young age to stay out of the way of cars. The ones who are too stupid to learn will be weeded out early. Everyone knows this.

 

[DesiPower]

More government coddling of our youth. Kids need to learn at a young age to stay out of the way of cars. The ones who are too stupid to learn will be weeded out early. Everyone knows this.

Agreed

 

[Ticky]

As a grad student, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Hey, my commute is just as important as yours!
//Get out-a my way, undergrad scum!

 

[DesiPower]

As a grad student, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Hey, my commute is just as important as yours!
//Get out-a my way, undergrad scum!

Why don't you live in a dorm or a frat house or something... you poor bastard.

 

[SithSolo1]

My place is sandwiched between the largest college in the state and one of the two highschools in town. Both are within 3 blocks. The main middle school, two or 3 K-6 schools, and downtown are within a half mile. I can't go anywhere between 2:30 and 5:30.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Thankfully, not one bit of my commute has a school on the route. Unfortunately, I do occasionally get fucked by the Zoo and Museum during the few days they host all the school trips.

 

[xanis]

More government coddling of our youth. Kids need to learn at a young age to stay out of the way of cars. The ones who are too stupid to learn will be weeded out early. Everyone knows this.

Yep, I have to agree with you here.

 

[D1gger]

Still two weeks until university starts here. It doesn't impact my trip to work, as I start work before most college kids even get up (6:30am), but it does add ~10 minutes to my commute home.

 

[Paratus]

Since you said rant:

My idiotic school district did a "safety assessment" and decided everyone within 2 miles of the elemetry school no longer needs bus service. So now the parents of 800 kids show up in the morning and afternoon to drop off / pick up. It's taken over an hour to get through the line.

The really assinine thing is in previous years, when we had bus service, the bus drivers wouldn't allow our kindergartner to walk the 3 houses from the bus stop to our house without a parent. But now 2 miles is fine.....

 

[hanoverphist]

i drop my kids off at school every day, but only because we are out of the bus/ district boundaries. i do notice a bit more traffic, but really... my total commute is about 54 miles a day, and it takes me less than an hour either way in all city driving.

 

[allisolm]

FSU (enrollment around 39,000), FAMU (enrollment about 12,000), Tallahassee Community College enrollment about 14,000) and all county schools (enrollment around 43,000) started classes yesterday!

I made sure to stay home.

 

[MJinZ]

Yeah. I live in a college town, so I dread when the students all return. The population of our town pretty much doubles over night.

My 2 mile commute to work goes from 5 minutes to 15 minutes.

That's awful. Mine goes from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. Yours is only 200% greater. Mine is like 3000%.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Something like a third of all traffic during the school year is parents driving their kids to school.

I could count on one hand the number of times my mom drove me to school in 12 years. Is it just a combination of no school buses and kids too lazy to bike/walk?

I think its more of the guy in the van who lures kids that spook people more than the old days.

 

[MJinZ]

Something like a third of all traffic during the school year is parents driving their kids to school.

I could count on one hand the number of times my mom drove me to school in 12 years. Is it just a combination of no school buses and kids too lazy to bike/walk?

Yea, I intend to get my kids driving at 10 years old or as soon as they can so I don't have to do it. The great thing is that since they are kids, you can just blame it on them if they get caught. But will make sure they are driving a safe BMW or Mercedes so people will assume they are old ladies or scrawny piqsqueek bankers.

 

[LtPage1]

Something like a third of all traffic during the school year is parents driving their kids to school.

I could count on one hand the number of times my mom drove me to school in 12 years. Is it just a combination of no school buses and kids too lazy to bike/walk?

Around here, the vast majority of suburban/middle-class (okay, white and asian) kids don't live close enough to their schools to walk or bike.