I will add serious distance to a journey in order to avoid a jam. I will wake at an inhumane hour to avoid traffic. I know it’s irrational but sitting in traffic is the worst. My life was so easy when I cycled to work. Literally zero traffic jams for twelve years. Every journey to and from home was fifteen minutes.
Same I moved to a place that lets me take mostly side roads to get in to work and I’m loving it. It is about 10 minutes longer than the highway if everything is perfect but if you account delays caused by traffic its usually almost even or faster if there’s a bad accident or something.
I will add serious distance to a journey in order to avoid a jam. I will wake at an inhumane hour to avoid traffic. I know it’s irrational but sitting in traffic is the worst. My life was so easy when I cycled to work. Literally zero traffic jams for twelve years. Every journey to and from home was fifteen minutes.
Same I moved to a place that lets me take mostly side roads to get in to work and I’m loving it. It is about 10 minutes longer than the highway if everything is perfect but if you account delays caused by traffic its usually almost even or faster if there’s a bad accident or something.