”What is the worst traffic jam you have ever been caught in?
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Leaving New Orleans the day before Katrina I drove for 14hrs. of traffic.
a wreck on 101 :(
weekday
downtown
Seoul
South Korea
Back in the '60's we were on our way to Los Angeles and ended up in the pile up that involved hundreds of cars. It's not something that I'd like to go through again.
Waiting to cross the GW Bridge - 2 hour backup.
Waiting to cross the Tappan Zee Bridge - 2 hour backup.
Waiting to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - 90 minute backup
I try to avoid the ones that last for hours - sometimes driving 100 miles out of my way. Evacuating New Orleans or Houston would count as an extreme traffic jam - definitely.
The one where you just leave the car regardless of any traffic violations it will accumulate.
lorry drivers strike in France got stuck in Spain for two weeks at Salou all these people on holiday and i was getting paid for sitting on the beach (heaven)
I was caught on loop 610 in Houston during rush hour with a major accident. It took 3 hours to go 10 miles. The traffic jams from the storms last year make my little issue sound like a racetrack.
Well, there was a tractor trailer wreck on the freeway on the way back from taking my son to school. Traffic was completely stopped, people out walking around their cars for hours. My dilemma? I was 7 months pregnant, and that means that I have to pee every 15 minutes!! I ended up having to put my SUV into 4 wheel drive "mode" and go through the wooded and uneven terrained center divide, turn around and drive over an hour the LONG way home!
in bangkok. grindlock for 5 hours. other drivers went out of their cars to buy newspapers or meals.
I-25 north heading for Denver. Motorcycle hit by semi, I think it turned out bad for the motorcycle guy so I didn't get too pissed. He had it worse.
I-40, North Carolina, Thanksgiving weekend 2003. 4 hours.
Yesterday. In Los Angeles, Pico and San Vicente were blocked off due to a shooting earlier in the day. I made a right turn to somewhere. Followed cars through an alley. Somehow I ended up somewhere familiar.
I was coming back home to Seattle after spending a weekend in the beautiful B.C. Canada. However, about 15 miles from the border the radio turned to an emergency broadcast saying that the border officials(who are not allowed to carry guns) left their posts because of intel saying a criminal was on his way. This allowed one lane of traffic for nearly 4 hours. I moved just under 3 miles in the final 3 and a half hours. It was horrible
4hours to cover 1.5miles on the M1, all because some nutter wanted to jump off a bridge!. Mind you, got paid for it.
It was in 2003.I think the date was 31st January,afternoon.
It took me 8hours (not joking!) from Heathrow Airport to Stanmore.
Very heavy snow.
Im sure many of you still remembers that!
98-myrtle beach. evacuation from hurricane bonnie. 4 hours to get from 21st ave s to waccamaw bridge on 501! along the way i got out & passed a football/tossed frisbee w/guys from a van next to us; listened to 2 complete brent lewis cds; smoked a pack of camels(i think they were camels-they had humps),and ate a giant pizza i bought from a parlor owner who was walkin the median sellin pizzas cause he couldnt get his car outa the parking lot!
Not me, but my husband and son, it took them 7 hours to do 80 miles on the m40, a lorry had gone thru the central reservation.
They had our 2 dogs with them, you can imagine the frustration!!
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