A disabled tour bus is adding to rush hour traffic congestion at Ellicott and Main.
The bus is sitting, with its four-way emergency lights blinking, on westbound Ellicott Street near the old courthourse.
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"rush hour traffic
"rush hour traffic congestion", Batavia, NY? Sorry Billie, but that cracks me up. I'd say more like Hurry up, 15 minutes, and can't exceed speed limit.
It may only be be a
It may only be be a rush-half-hour around here, but that intersection gets pretty congested at times. I mean, I've been stuck there some times waiting for the light to cycle through a whole TWO TIMES!!!
Now knock traffic down to one line ...
FWIW, I called this into Billie.
You're right, Dave, but I was
You're right, Dave, but I was going by what Howard said, plus I thought my term "rush hour traffic congestion" as whatever people are used to.
In, L.A., 5 p.m. traffic like Batavia's is what it's like at a shopping center, not say, Wilshire Boulevard.
But with people commuting to and from Buffalo and Rochester, they know very well what heavy traffic is like, too. "My bad."
I wasn't necessarily being
I wasn't necessarily being critical, just a little sarcastic while trying to be funny. I just get a kick out of hearing people complain about traffic in Batavia, or Rochester & Buffalo for that matter. They have no clue how bad it is in some places. For the record, I don't miss sitting in real rush hour traffic for a second.
When I lived in Chesterbrook,
When I lived in Chesterbrook, PA (across the valley from Valley Forge National Park) - my home was three miles from King of Prussia Mall. It would take almost 45 minutes to drive to the mall. It was actually faster to walk.
When someone would ask where I was from, and I answered NY, I would get "how can you stand the traffic?".
That always made me laugh considering the traffic problems they had.
I would tell them the only traffic jams we encountered was when three cows would block an intersection.
Bea, can you picture a broken
Bea, can you picture a broken down bus blocking a lane on Route 202, King of Prussia at 5:04 PM? That is ugly.
202 is ugly. At rush hour,
202 is ugly. At rush hour, about this time of year, when the sun was low, it would blind you when trying to get on the highway ramp. Much like the sun was blinding this moring if you were traveling east.
Often, going into Philly, I would wonder how an emergency vehicle would ever get to an accident with the traffic the way is it by the boat houses on the Schuylkill Expressway. Another horrible road.