No one likes to sit in traffic jams. However, if you live anywhere near a metropolitan or city-type area, traffic jams aren’t just inevitable; they seem to be part of your daily routine. Recently, I moved into a new apartment in a different town. Since moving, I have had several appointments in the city that required me to travel during morning rush hour. Normally, it wouldn’t have been a problem; but I had forgotten that I had moved. Having said that, I failed to take into account the fact that the traffic might be different since I was now living in an entirely different area.
Sure enough, once I was on the road, I sat in traffic for an hour. In that entire hour, I only traveled two miles! Two miles! Anxious to know what the problem was, I found myself fighting back the urge to become angry out of frustration- or worse- to perform an illegal driving maneuver in order to get through the traffic more quickly. Instead, I decided to patiently (as patiently as was possible) wait out the traffic jam and see what the cause of all the backed up traffic was. Do you know what I discovered after sitting in traffic for what was easily over an hour by that point? I discovered that the cause of the traffic jam was merely due to the fact that there were too many people on the road at one time. Continue reading ‘The Dreaded Traffic Jams’ »