Hi there smart driver. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about congestion and traffic
slowdowns which usually happen on highways freeways and interstates. If you
drive on the MA long enough you will experience slow down or backups due to
traffic crashes traffic volume or stuff falling off the back of the truck or
other people and animals being on the roadway where there shouldn't be so it
is going to happen now just before we get started here make sure you hit that
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the great information as I get it available to you now traffic congestion
a couple of recent trips one in Vancouver I experienced traffic back up
actually it was one of the few times the traffic actually came to a standstill
and I actually turned around and went back and found it an alternative route
in Toronto I experienced back up on the Gardiner Expressway and in a recent trip
there and it was simply due to traffic volume so we're going to talk about
traffic volume today back up and what you do in that situation to sort of calm
yourself down not get excited because unfortunately what happens in traffic
congestion is that you don't know what's going on you don't know whether it's due
to traffic volume you don't know whether it's due to a crash or some other
unforeseen event such as the sinkhole here in Vernon BC that we've recently
had here in the spring due to all the water we had recently so stick around
we'll be right back with that information
smart drivers welcome back work with smart drive test talking to you today
about traffic congestion yes at certain times of the day you are going to have
traffic congestion in and around large metropolitan areas regardless of where
you are in the world London in England Cincinnati in the United States you know
the state of Ohio Vancouver British Columbia Canada Toronto Ontario Canada
all these large metropolitan cities are going to have interstates motorways and
freeways and those freeways without fail during the business days of the week are
going to have rush hours in the morning and in the afternoon and years ago when
I drove truck into Toronto eastbound on the 401 we had a saying that if you
didn't get past the 299 which was the big Snider's meet sign by 5:00 o'clock
in the morning you were going to sit in traffic in Toronto and for those of you
haven't been to Toronto Toronto through Toronto is eight lanes of traffic going
east and west there are four through lanes the Express lanes and then there
are four collector lanes if you've been to any of the big US cities most of the
big US cities have ring roads which means their freeways going around the
city that moved to facilitate traffic flow in and around the city and I have
sat in Atlanta Georgia on six lanes of traffic interstate traffic going in
either direction in bumper-to-bumper traffic in the afternoon during rush
hour so the first defense against sitting in traffic and experiencing
traffic congestion is to plan the time of your trip if at all possible avoid
seven o'clock to ten o'clock in the morning because if you travel on an
interstate in and around a metropolitan area between 7:00 and 10:00 in the
morning you know you're going to sit in traffic likewise if you're heading out
of the metropolitan area in the afternoon between 3 and 6:30 you also
know that there's going to be congestion there's going to be rush-hour so plan
your trip accordingly do not try and come out of the city between three and
six thirty in the afternoon now that's going to vary a little bit depending on
which fault in an area you are in and around
and you will get to know that if you are driving in and out of the city for work
every day now if you are driving in and out of the major metropolitan area from
the outer suburbs or one of the communities one of the what they call
bedroom communities where people live and sleep and so then then commute into
town there are alternative forms of transportation I mean in Toronto they
have the GO train and lots of transit systems will allow you to have Park and
Ride where you can park your vehicle and then take the train or the local transit
system into town that's an alternative now if you do end up sitting in traffic
and do commute into town every day you know that so you're going to listen to a
new stories on the radio you're going to go and get audio books and those types
of things now a few years ago Zig Ziglar was saying that if you listen to
audiobooks in a car during your travels and commutes for a period of up to two
years it's the same thing it's comparable to doing a master's degree at
a university so there is a lot of learning that can go on while you're in
your car now I do encourage you not to do distracted driving all those things
that drivers do in the daily grind and commute of going back and forth in and
out of a major metropolitan area you know shaving eating putting on makeup
drinking coffee all those types of things try not to do that while you're
driving you can get some work done while you're doing it if you need to make
phone calls and those types of things but certainly make sure that you're on a
hands-free set now if you are in traffic as I said previously plan your trips
accordingly so you're not going in and out of the major urban centers during
rush hour now obviously in the morning the traffic's going to be going into
town so if you're coming out of town you're probably going to be all right
now in the afternoon traffic is coming out of town so if you're going into town
you're probably going to be alright you know that a part of congestion now there
are unforeseen things that do happen on freeways that cause freeways to slow
down or shut down sinkholes you know animals get out on the freeways and
those types of things people are watching around for whatever reason on
the freeway those and traffic crashes obviously will slow down and shut down
the freeway now one of the things that you need to be careful about on freeways
if the freeway backs up for whatever reason
and the traffic behind you is not come to a stop yet make sure that you put
your Waze on make sure you keep lost lots of distance between you and the
vehicles in front of you that way when you see the traffic coming up behind you
you can simply move up and you're not going to get rear-ended and I'll put a
video up here for you on how to defend against being rear-ended in vehicle
especially on a freeway because there have been some awful awful incidents of
vehicles plowing into the back of other vehicles that are queued up to get on
off an off ramp or queued up because the traffic backed up for whatever reason
that it may have backed up so know that have a look at the rear-end video so
that you don't get rear-ended on a freeway now saying that the other
tactics that you keep in place while you're crawling along in the backed up
traffic is stay back from the vehicle in front of you yes you're going to have a
gap there and other people are going to try and get in and those types of things
and whatnot just let them go there crash somewhere else you got to stay back
because sitting in traffic and driving slowly bumper-to-bumper and it just kind
of grinding along it is distracting you're watching you're looking at other
vehicles and the vehicle moves it forward and you move forward and you
know if you got space you're not going to drive into the vehicle in front of
you and it's less likely that you're going to get rear-ended by the vehicle
behind you so make sure you keep space between you and the vehicles in front
you don't have to be right up tight to them it's not required it doesn't matter
if somebody gets in front of you people are going to cut in there turn it going
to try and move over they're going to get around they're going to go in the
utility Lane and they're going to turn around on the freeway in those types of
just let them go okay it is frustrating it's you're on edge when the traffic's
backed up you don't know what's going on you don't know how long it's going to
last yes but take a breath have your audiobooks
and just try as much as possible to relax in Vancouver here where we got
backed up in traffic and actually it's been a couple of times now that I've
been running for the ferry in Vancouver and got stuck in traffic
you know we missed the ferry we were two hours late and so instead of getting to
Vancouver Island at 9:30 at night we ended up getting to Vancouver Island at
11:30 at night but we got there safely nobody was injured nobody was hurt but
it was one of the few times that we'd sat in traffic
we're almost 90 minutes before I decided that it was time to turn around and go
back and find an alternative route so sometimes if emergency services if there
is a traffic crash they will be really good about it
tune into the local radio stations they will have traffic reports and you can
figure out what to do if emergency services are on it they'll have people
out there deterring the traffic and moving it around to alternative routes
and try and getting it around a major crash or some other incidents that has
caused the freeway to be shut down but it's it's it's a rare incident that they
actually shut the freeway down completely and you know try and merge
try and be conscious of other people and try and you know help other people to
merge and those types of things to try and move the traffic for now one other
thing that you might find on a freeway is if there's congestion and
construction where two lanes are moving into one lane to get past construction
you may find two large commercial vehicles that sit beside each other and
actually kind of crawl forward and hold the traffic back I've actually been in
trucks that have done that because it's a great deal of work for truck drivers
to be in stop-and-go traffic because you're holding the clutch in you're
letting the clutch out you're putting the thing in you're shifting a couple of
gears it's much easier for two trucks to drive at a slow speed at a constant
speed and much less exhausting and then when you get up to where you need to
merge the one truck moves in front of the other so try not to curse the trucks
out or try not to get in on the shoulder because stop and go traffic for truck
drivers and bus drivers is probably one of the most owners things that you have
to do it is much easier to move at a constant slow speed in a truck than it
is to move in that stop and go traffic so if you ever get behind two trucks
that are doing that and blocking the traffic and holding it back that's the
reason they're doing it and actually you're probably going to get through the
congestion much faster with those two trucks doing that then you are and stop
and go traffic so know that if that happens to you and that's what's going
on that's what's happening in congestion and as well just take a breath have your
books listen to the news figure out what's going on if you are in for an
inordinate amount of time and what I'm talking about inordinate anything beyond
half an hour forty-five minutes you might want to find an alternative route
but for the most part in my experience has only been a couple of times in all
the years I've been driving I've actually been in traffic that
stopped most of the time within 15 or 20 minutes the slow down traffic will speed
up and take off again so you're usually not going to sit in
back up traffic for very long quick review of traffic congestion plan your
trips accordingly know there's going to be rush hour in the morning and rush
hour in the afternoon in the morning all of the traffic is going into the city so
if you're going into the city in the morning between 7:00 and 9:00 or say
6:30 and 9:00 o'clock you're going to be sitting in traffic if you're coming out
of the city in the afternoon between three and six thirty you two are going
to be sitting in traffic unfortunately for some of those who live in the outer
suburbs of these large metropolitan areas and commute back and forth every
day you're going to sit in traffic if you're driving your car some of the ways
that you can combat that sitting in traffic and knowing you're sitting in
traffic stay back from the vehicles in front of you get a couple car lengths
listen to some of the news stations some of the public broadcasting systems that
have the shows on in these talk shows they're quite interesting and
entertaining as well go to the library or purchase audiobooks audiobooks are
really great to listen to in your car actually there was a study a couple
years ago I think it was I can attribute this to Zig Ziglar he was saying that if
you listen to two years of audiobooks in a car while you're driving it's
comparable to doing a master's degree so there is a great deal of learning that
can be done while you're spending time in your vehicle now if you're sitting in
traffic don't do all those distracting things like talking on your phone and
putting on makeup and shaving and eating and all of the other things that we do
on the freeway in traffic listen to audiobooks it's good for your brain good
exercise for your brain so that's another way you can do it and I know
you're on edge it's frustrating because you don't know what's happening you
don't know the reason that the traffic is slowed down or backed up whether it's
a traffic crash or how soon it's going to get going in those types of things so
there's a lot of unknown variables in terms of backup and traffic crashes and
other events that cause traffic to back up on interstates freeways and motorways
so know that the take your time keep your space and have something in the car
that you can do or listen to a story or something like that if you've got kids
in the car as well go to the library and get those books
and there's a CD accompanying the book and you put the CD in the radio and they
can walk along our look in the book and read along with this the CD on the radio
so that's another thing you can do with your kids if you're driving on freeways
and know that you're going to be around metropolitan areas probably end up in
congestion that unfortunately will extend the length of your trip question
for my smart drivers what is your experience sitting in congestion what is
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