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When Bumper-to-Bumper

October 16, 2009 02:01 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

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Yesterday's commute was a bear. Traffic bumper to bumper for a mile or more, from 280 to 80 to 287. About a 30-minute delay, most of it spent not moving at all. The only thing to do--for me, anyway--was reach for the camera and roll down a window...

You'll notice that these cars are not bumper-to-bumper. They were on 80. My car was on the ramp from 280 onto 80, and that was at a standstill. For the cars already on 80, the standstill would begin about a quarter mile down the road.

The cause? An accident, near as I could tell. But the accident was on my side, the service road side, not on 80 itself, so the 80 backup must have been sheer rubbernecking.

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