Are there less cars on the road in your neighborhood?

I've noticed a distinct reduction of traffic on my street in the evenings after rush hour traffic dies down.

We are conserving every drop of gas and make only necessary trips in the car - walking and biking much more.

Also, I've noticed less cars in the parking lots of places like video rental stores.

last night and the number of people there was unusually light. Normally at 6-7pm the place is packed. We got right in and in 15 minutes it was almost empty. After 7:15 I asked the waitress if gas prices was keeping away and she said "No, business usually picks up after 7" an obvious lie.

Is there any particular reason you prefer to frequent Cracker Barrel, a 100% red company with a history of enough lawsuits for sexist, racist, and homophobic corporate policies to fill the NY Public Library?

They may not have known that. I didn't. Thanks to your info I would not patronize their establishment ( after I verify from other sources). You might want to let people know in a gentler, non-accusatory manner. Peace.

It was striking actually.

And people are driving with a vengeance. I see more road rage, more erratic driving, more accidents. I drive 2 hrs a day on major highways, and it has been the grimmest week I can remember.

Also, people are spending like there's no tomorrow (hm?) On a trip to the shopping mall for school supplies last weekend, parking was impossible, drivers impatient, and people going out literally with carloads of STUFF...all kinds of stuff, not just the typical back-to-school stuff. Giant Brookstone and Williams-Sonoma shopping bags full of who knows what.

Costco was the same way, with both staples and non-essentials.

The whole atmosphere of desperation makes me uneasy.

Sometimes there isn's a car for hours.

outsized, souped up trucks and monster SUVs.

Wow. What a shame.

Who knew there were so many cars around? I wonder where they're hiding the big ones?

many SUVs parked in parking lots with "FOR SALE" signs and a LOW price OBO.


Bicycle parking overflowing every street corner in Minneapolis with commuter bikes.



Republican GREED has now KILLED more Americans than Al Qaeda!

The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

but far more complaining of gas prices.

Plus, walking is out of the question. All stores are too far. And the only ones riding bikes are the immigrants who don't have cars.

In the US people are now paying around 80 cents (Australian) a litre for petrol. I just filled up my tank and it cost $1.46 a litre. It'd cost even more if I was living in a rural area, so I don't exactly get the complaints of Americans about high petrol prices, except that they've been so used to super-low prices that a rise to merely low prices is a shock to the system...

Violet...

as always, people still have to work.. At night, it is getting to the point you long to see more traffic, not!

Sorry, I just couldn't take it anymore. ;-)

glad you said something :)

Sid

less traffic? :)

:party:

Sigh.

Fewer cars; less traffic.

Fewer people; less population.

Fewer mistakes; less illiteracy.

Much as this common error drives me insane, I would give it up as a lost cause if only people could use "loose" and "lose" correctly.

There are far greater offenses scattered all over the internet like so much LOSE change.

traffic but a card dealership which has for the last years had row upon row of shiny new SUVs and minivans lined up in the front of their lot amid scads of balloons and streamers. There were literally no SUVs or minivans to be seen in the lot. It was all sedans or compacts.

Granted, it's back to school time, but I think it's worse than last September.

So, no, not really. I'm driving to Philadelphia tonight during rush hour so I wish the traffic was better.

I live in an undamaged part of South Louisiana. The streets are jammed. The stores are jammed. The schools are jammed.

...and in a couple months the rich folks will head south for the winter.

Yes, it's getting quiet. :)

but I did buy my first bus pass in like, 30 years and have been riding local transit. Actually, not a bad experience at all. I get some exercise walking to/from the bus stops and I'm netting a savings of about $100.00 a month in gas. Anyway, the "regulars" tell me that they've definitely seen an increase in the number of people riding the bus.

afford gasoline. Its like some sort of bragging right. I see the, gassing up their SUV's all the time. its like a status symbol out here. pathetic.

I saved up all my errands for yesterday, and drove the ten miles to town. I was shocked! I asked the woman in the bank where everyone was. She replied that the yearly Labor Day festival had just ended, and they'd all left town. I told her it looked like half the residents had gone with them. It was quiet, and very weird.

On a side note, I was literally chased into town by a large SUV with GW stickers. I have bumperstickers, and this guy road up my ass, along side, and braked in front of me for no apparent reason for ten miles. :scared:

I'm usually a bus person anyway, and I had expected to see a great number of newbies on the bus, but only a few materialized. I expect more next week when summer is really over. A lot of people took vacay this week.