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MechEngDropout
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 Posted: 09/12/04 - 00:21 Post subject: 50 minutes
Time duration for my drive home from work. Normally it takes about 7 minutes. Freaking football games. I seriously hate them. If the infrastructure can't support that many people, you shouldn't be allowed to build a 91,600 capacity stadium. It's ridiculous. Had I waited for the roads to be cleared, it probably would have taken longer than 2 hours to get home. I remember last year I couldn't get home for several hours so I parked at the grocery store and walked the 2 miles home. Thankfully I've got mad directional skills and street knowledge so I could at least get home. Most of the streets leaving campus are turned into 1 ways and there's a heck of a lot of police blockages. I even called the LSU police department and asked them how to get home... they had no clue. Here's what I did... (normal route home in blue, my route home tonight in red)
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Noley
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 00:26 Post subject:
Welcome to my work Mech. If there wasn't a single, solitary soul on the road it would be an 19 minute drive on the highway. I don't take that route in the afternoons and it takes me anywhere from 35-60 minutes with the traffic lights. 
I just put on some good music and accept it now. I unwind more when I drive home from work now.
I feel for ya.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 05:54 Post subject:
Have you considered bike commuting? Usually, if the roads are wide enough, you can zip past them on the right-hand side. and if the roads aren't wide enough, but you're brave/stupid, you can still pass them on the right.
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Cappy
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 06:54 Post subject:
I'm with rtpd, on days when there is a LSU game, maybe bike it. Will definitely be quicker
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 07:52 Post subject:
It's a great idea except I think probably 75% of the people on the roads are drunk. I don't like those odds on a bike.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 08:15 Post subject:
that map, and city driving, gives me hives.
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 09:00 Post subject:
wow that sux. 
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duathlon
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | Welcome to my work Mech. If there wasn't a single, solitary soul on the road it would be an 19 minute drive on the highway. I don't take that route in the afternoons and it takes me anywhere from 35-60 minutes with the traffic lights.
I just put on some good music and accept it now. I unwind more when I drive home from work now.
I feel for ya. |
My commute is 43 miles mostly over 2 interstates... on a good day drivin 80-85MPH ofcourse it should be 45 mins. Most days the 2nd intersate is clogged and the detour adds 11 miles of back roads. It takes me 1 1/4 hours most time  ... People here almost accept it as part of life... Hopefully in a couple of months I will move closer to wrk...
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 10:17 Post subject:
I say that's your problem for living so far away. 
It's only about 6 miles to work for me.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 12:37 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | It's a great idea except I think probably 75% of the people on the roads are drunk. I don't like those odds on a bike. |
But they're drunk and moving slowly, if at all. You, on the other hand, are sober, narrower and more maneuverable.
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duathlon
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 15:02 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | I say that's your problem for living so far away.
It's only about 6 miles to work for me. |
Concur.... But my uncles letting me lvie for free  . The rent around here is freakin unbelievable...
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Noley
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 15:39 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | that map, and city driving, gives me hives.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 16:42 Post subject:
| duathlon wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | I say that's your problem for living so far away.
It's only about 6 miles to work for me. |
Concur.... But my uncles letting me lvie for free . The rent around here is freakin unbelievable... |
Got an extra room?
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alyson98
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 22:34 Post subject:
Denver was just ranked as number 7 in the highest congested traffic cities! We are not big enough to be in that kind of ranking! It sucks!
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Posted: 09/12/04 - 23:41 Post subject:
Sorry, I'm not going to give you a whole lot of sympathy. LSU posts its football game schedules months and even years in advance. Plan your routes from and to home accordingly. 
Geaux Tigers!
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