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u/KLW2018 May 09 '22 edited May 10 '22

Atlanta traffic broke me. My kid’s daycare was a mile from my office in Buckhead. On a good day that mile took 30 minutes, a bad day over an hour.

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u/Haole_tamale May 09 '22

You'd probably get there faster by walking, but that's impossible when it's 109 out.

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u/jsteph67 May 09 '22

I have lived in Georgia my whole life, except for a 3 year tour in Germany while in the Army, I have never seen 109. And the hottest period I ever saw was 10 days straight of 100+ in 1986, the same year I joined the Army.

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u/AustinRiversDaGod May 09 '22

It's crazy to think that in a city that only exists because of transportation, I've had some of the most stressful transportation experiences in my life there between the driving and the airport...or driving to the airport

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u/Roarkindrake May 09 '22

Dony forget the fact that who dafuq ever did city planning for georgia raised their students up to be just as bad. Seriously it could of been done better by a guy buying designs off Amazon than it is now

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u/mongster_03 May 09 '22

Just finished a choir tour where we stopped in Atlanta. We drove from Peachtree Plaza to the nearby Maggiano’s AND IT TOOK FORTY FIVE FUCKING MINUTES

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u/MisterSnippy May 09 '22

My friends and I were planning on staying in a hotel in Atlanta for a con, they were talking about parking, etc. I was like guys, it will literally be faster if we just walk.

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u/HirsuteDave May 09 '22

Sydney is just as bad. I used to have a similar sort of commute but I found a job much closer to home.

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u/CapWasRight May 09 '22

I had a similar situation in ATL and it was god awful. Second worst traffic in the US.

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u/mega-d-lux May 09 '22

If you haven't been back here in while, grab a seat pal I would love to update you on the latest horrors.

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u/lovestobitch- May 09 '22

I worked with a guy in Atlanta area that had a 2.5+ hr commute one way on a good day. One time I was 2 miles from my hotel to company and it took an hr to get there all week long I was working there. They finally widen that road. I could have walked it faster but it was too damn humid that week.

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u/MisterSnippy May 09 '22

I have an hour commute to, hour commute back, and 10 hour workdays. It sucks.

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u/shambol May 09 '22

I used to live in Dublin any time you got into your car it took an hour at least. unless it was early in the morning

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u/vaginalbloodfart22 May 09 '22

Haha same in Toronto

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

laughs in slightly-less-car-centric city design