Traffic? Don't talk to me about traffic!
I'm sorry, but growing up in KC, and then living for two decades in D/FW, I just can't get serious about the "traffic" here in Fayetteville. I just can't do it. I have a friend who gets really, really *upset* about the traffic, and it's all I can do to keep from laughing at her sometimes when she's driving us to lunch... Oooh it took us *seven* whole minutes to get here instead of the normal *five*?
No matter where you live in Dallas, it takes at least 20 minutes to get anywhere worth going to. You *might* have a grocery store within 10 minutes of your home, but not always. The only time our freeway traffic goes slower than, say, 45 mph, seems to be if there's an actual accident, whereas getting on a freeway in D/FW anytime between 4:30 and 6 pm means you're going to go down to 20 at times, if not come to a complete stop more than once.
And driving in KC? Traffic isn't heavy and slow, like in Dallas, it's *scary*. You think you've got assholes here? Driving on the freeways in KC scares me - sharp twists and turns, narrow lanes, and people doing 80 mph or more in 55 mph zones...and places where the turns are sharp enough that they have to lower the speed limit to 40, on an interstate, because anything with a center of gravity higher than a minivan will topple sideways if they go any faster than that.
Yeah, I find driving in rush hour in Fayetteville to be quite meditative, actually. It takes me 20 minutes to get to work on a reeeeally bad traffic day. It's usually between 12-15 minutes, and I actually get to drive the speed limit except when stopping at lights! Gonna take a lot more than the occasional driver cutting me off to rattle me.
No matter where you live in Dallas, it takes at least 20 minutes to get anywhere worth going to. You *might* have a grocery store within 10 minutes of your home, but not always. The only time our freeway traffic goes slower than, say, 45 mph, seems to be if there's an actual accident, whereas getting on a freeway in D/FW anytime between 4:30 and 6 pm means you're going to go down to 20 at times, if not come to a complete stop more than once.
And driving in KC? Traffic isn't heavy and slow, like in Dallas, it's *scary*. You think you've got assholes here? Driving on the freeways in KC scares me - sharp twists and turns, narrow lanes, and people doing 80 mph or more in 55 mph zones...and places where the turns are sharp enough that they have to lower the speed limit to 40, on an interstate, because anything with a center of gravity higher than a minivan will topple sideways if they go any faster than that.
Yeah, I find driving in rush hour in Fayetteville to be quite meditative, actually. It takes me 20 minutes to get to work on a reeeeally bad traffic day. It's usually between 12-15 minutes, and I actually get to drive the speed limit except when stopping at lights! Gonna take a lot more than the occasional driver cutting me off to rattle me.