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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Driving from Chicago, it's a pretty quick drive to the hinterlands of Indiana, especially when there is no traffic. It takes a couple of hours to feel like you've hit the hinterlands when driving from downtown L.A. or Manhattan under even light traffic. A normal traffic jam in either city will easily make a trip to the countryside a 4- or 5-hour drive.
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Ah yes, the 4-5 hour drive to the country side, very true.
I find its easier to enter the city, but harder to escape it. When one is on the BQE/Belt Parkway/Cross-Bronx/LIC Expressway ... there's a thing called NYC special relativity that kicks in. When sitting in mind numbing traffic, time slows down. 20 minute delays feel like an hour. Hour long delays feel like 3 hours. Usually time slows down the faster one goes, but remember, this is NYC special relativity. There's a difference!!!
This relativity even effects the traffic lights. The green light seems to turn red very quickly. The transition from yellow to red occurs in fractions of a second. And just when you start moving... you gain momentum... only to find yourself in another hour long delay.
And thats just normal traffic on any given weekday... the horror that awaits those pre-holiday days where it seems like everyone is on the road.