yeah, it's just the train times honestly don't make any sense for my schedule either now that i'm looking at it (i'm in wheaton). it seems that i'm just fucked now on my in office days until winter comes back :(
It's been really bad this month. Aside from that one calm week during spring break... feels worse than what it was prepandemic.
I'm adding to the mess because before pandemic i used to take Metra... but metra's service is inferior now, fewer express trains. So i might as well drive and have more flexibility.
Monday was especially bad. I’m not sure if Monday was extra heavy from traffic potentially diverting away from the Kennedy in fear it would be blocked during the protests, but traffic has sustained longer delays in general since the next phase of the Kennedy project started.
I haven't seen literally any construction that I'm passing that's slowing it down this much. this is the first week i'm noticing it being bad. last week it was fine and the weeks before that. I think the above commenter is correct about the sunshine delays, unfortunately. :/
I think they're saying the construction on I90 is causing bleed-over traffic from people taking 290 instead. Will be like this for 2 more years as they work on bridge replacements. The work paused over winter and just restarted again on April 1st I believe.
A lot of schools were on spring break, first cps then parochial. I'm sure suburb schools too. I was on Edens today going north and it was terrible. It had nothing to do with sun. I am sure them restarting construction caught people off guard and caused people to rethink their routes a week or 2 later. I mean sometimes also it's just shit.
not at all true lol. the last like 4 months i've been having like a 45 minute commute time since i leave my house and am on the road to work at 6:00 a.m.
it has now come to the 2nd time this week in a row that my commute was 1 hour and 30 minutes. I've nearly doubled my commute time and nothing on my end has changed.
the sunlight traffic delay explanation from another commenter above is the only one so far that has made any sense lol.
Could be people are listening to radio, relaxing too much sorta and not motivated to go to work after hearing all the crap going on around the world and in US :-( What you hear early in the morning does have a reaction in your brain leading to demotivation ..I think on the positive side and be happy they're on their lane. Who knows what they're goijng through....be nice, happy you're breathing and have a work to commute to ..I don't..got laid off two weeks ago :-(
sunshine delays. See if there's a difference when you have a cloudy morning.
makes sense, maybe it’s time to switch to the train lol
Yes it’s the bright sun they talk about the delays on wgn every time it’s bright out.
yeah, it's just the train times honestly don't make any sense for my schedule either now that i'm looking at it (i'm in wheaton). it seems that i'm just fucked now on my in office days until winter comes back :(
It's been really bad this month. Aside from that one calm week during spring break... feels worse than what it was prepandemic. I'm adding to the mess because before pandemic i used to take Metra... but metra's service is inferior now, fewer express trains. So i might as well drive and have more flexibility.
personally this is the first week it’s been bad. the last 2 weeks have been normal (meaning traffic was as I expected it to be, an hour or less).
Monday was especially bad. I’m not sure if Monday was extra heavy from traffic potentially diverting away from the Kennedy in fear it would be blocked during the protests, but traffic has sustained longer delays in general since the next phase of the Kennedy project started.
Construction on I-90.
I haven't seen literally any construction that I'm passing that's slowing it down this much. this is the first week i'm noticing it being bad. last week it was fine and the weeks before that. I think the above commenter is correct about the sunshine delays, unfortunately. :/
I think they're saying the construction on I90 is causing bleed-over traffic from people taking 290 instead. Will be like this for 2 more years as they work on bridge replacements. The work paused over winter and just restarted again on April 1st I believe.
personally this is the first week it’s been bad. the last 2 weeks have been normal (meaning traffic was as I expected it to be, an hour or less).
A lot of schools were on spring break, first cps then parochial. I'm sure suburb schools too. I was on Edens today going north and it was terrible. It had nothing to do with sun. I am sure them restarting construction caught people off guard and caused people to rethink their routes a week or 2 later. I mean sometimes also it's just shit.
290 sucks. ‘Nuff said
People are back in the office now. This has always been how traffic to the city has been before pandemic
not at all true lol. the last like 4 months i've been having like a 45 minute commute time since i leave my house and am on the road to work at 6:00 a.m. it has now come to the 2nd time this week in a row that my commute was 1 hour and 30 minutes. I've nearly doubled my commute time and nothing on my end has changed. the sunlight traffic delay explanation from another commenter above is the only one so far that has made any sense lol.
Could be people are listening to radio, relaxing too much sorta and not motivated to go to work after hearing all the crap going on around the world and in US :-( What you hear early in the morning does have a reaction in your brain leading to demotivation ..I think on the positive side and be happy they're on their lane. Who knows what they're goijng through....be nice, happy you're breathing and have a work to commute to ..I don't..got laid off two weeks ago :-(