Thursday, January 07, 2010

Insane Travel Times



We are getting snow here today in Chicago and the roads are absolutely insane in terms of traffic. This is just one screen shot of the hours and hours people are going to spend each direction in traffic. Note that it takes over an hour to go 8 miles. I think Dan the runner could do 8 miles in an hour himself (hey I could do 6).

It is also pothole season I hit my first boulder-sized right-in-the-middle-of-the-lane pothole going north on Halsted and it was totally unavoidable.

2 comments:

Carl from Chicago said...

I meant six miles an hour for me. That's about right.

Dan from Madison said...

Actually, 8 mph is a 7.5 minute mile, which is my normal pace for my 5 mile plus runs these days. So for today anyway, I could theoretically run from O'Hare to downtown faster than you could drive it.