This is what bugs me. Gas at all time low, but no where to drive. I usually go thru about a tank a week but with work at home in VA I think the last tank I bought 2weeks ago will probably last me until mid May.
I’ll add that it seems that what people are out driving are not really obeying the rules. The street in front of my house has a 40 MPH speed limit. The folks driving by are going a lot faster than that.
Here in rural Virginia the roads seem to have the same amount of traffic as normal, granted a lot are delivery trucks and contractors. About the only change I’ve noticed is there isn’t as much of a peak at 9, when schools let out, and at 5.
I haven’t actually driven my normal commute route since the “stay at home” order was issued, but it seemed like even on my drive home after my last day at the office there was noticeably less traffic.
I live across the street from an elementary school, so the really eerie thing is how quiet the school is now. No parents dropping off and picking up kids. No school buses. No kids on the playground. The only activity over there now is the odd maintenance person, and the landscaping crew mowing once a week.
On a tangent from this, in “Twenty-Eight Days Later” the central character staggers through an apparently deserted apocalyptic London (clearly filmed very early in the morning from the colour cast) but in the distant background, you can see the traffic going back and forth on the Westway.
How does your experience line up with this map, published 4/2? It’s supposed to show the movement of smartphones in the US.
In our area, we’ve had lines for fast food and take-out stretching into the street and interfering with traffic in a few places.
I live within sight of the second busiest highway in the Montreal area and it is normally bumper to bumper between 4 and 7 PM. I looked the other day at 5 and not only is traffic flowing smoothly, there is hardly any to flow. At one point, there was not a vehicle in sight in either direction. I see a stretch of maybe 200 feet.
My son is traffic director of one of the Boston suburbs. Not only is he working from home, there is hardly anything to do since there is no traffic to speak of.
The reduced commute time is one of the only good things about still going to work. My morning drive normally starts trying to merge from an onramp into bumper to bumper traffic on an urban interstate (Kennedy Expy). Lately, it’s full highway speeds the whole way. It’s maybe a third quicker.
I take a different way home but the number of other cars is far, far reduced. Bottleneck traffic signals that used to take a few light cycles to get through now take one cycle or none, if the timing’s right. I’d estimate it’s 40-50% quicker to get home.
I saw $1.49 yesterday, though in DuPage Co.
Hey! Summit County high-five! I live in Summit County, Ohio and often end up at your county resources when looking for mine 
I live along a secondary road in my town (not the big E/W state road but one of our city’s main N/S roads) and traffic seems to be normal all day. Or maybe a little less. It kind of feels like a Sunday around here, all the time.
I’ve driven on the freeways a couple times in the last week. Traffic didn’t seem much lighter.
I am here off I5 in North LA County, and traffic is much lighter. In fact, that has been noted several times on local FB groups.
Traffic in LA has picked up again this past week; it’s almost back to normal. We are having a heat wave, and with LA and San Diego beaches closed I’m sure a lot of people are driving to Orange County and Ventura, but I noticed this a day or two before the heat arrived.
Yesterday I heard a news story that in this part of the Midwest (IN, MI, OH), there has been an increase in speeding tickets for people going above 100mph. Less traffic means more space to be stupid, I guess.
In the Washington DC area, traffic is definitely lighter than usual. But it’s on the increase compared to a few weeks ago. People are losing patience with the lockdown.
Astoria, Queens, NYC checking in here. My sole foray more than 10 blocks walked in the last 7 weeks is a drive to Jones Beach on the south shore of Long Island. We went there about a week ago.
More traffic by far than I’d anticipated. In fact, due to all of the construction projects plowing ahead full-steam, the split of the GCP and Van Wyck was a mess, with the Van Wyck severely backed up.
The drive once entering the Meadowbrook southbound was a joy.
I listen to the newsradio now and again. Traffic reports are filled with car accidents. People are morons, and the speeding is way up.
Fuckwits.
It is VERY strange to see my elevated train station whenever I walk down the avenue to get to the local supermarket and yet not have USED it in almost 2 months- with many months in front of me of zero train use.
Surreal all around.
That guy looks like he’s not really sure where he wants to go…
I live in Orange County and I have noticed a marked increase in activity over the past 1-2 weeks. Right now there are thousands of people protesting the Governor’s shutdown of the beaches. It doesn’t help that our Sheriff has said that he wasn’t going to enforce the order :smack: