I stumbled across this video on YouTube of tickman1’s commute home last night. It took him 8.5 hours to travel 23 miles from DC to the VA suburbs. Fortunately, the pilgrimage has been sped up and condensed for our viewing pleasure.
Warning: For those of you who braved the roads last night, this video may cause panic attacks, claustrophobia or heart attacks.
Rebecca: A born and bred New Yorker, Rebecca made the big trip "down south" to DC in 2006 and hasn't looked back. She spends her days strategizing about how interwebz/social media marketing can help her clients. In her free time, if she's not out on the soccer field or being sporty in some way, she can be found chilling out at a bar, sipping a beer or out on the town exploring. Read why Rebecca loves DC or follow her on twitter.
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5 Responses to “Commute From Hell: 23 miles in 8.5 hours”
January 27th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by kim chapman, Matthew Grimes and panic attack, Beki Dunn. Beki Dunn said: interesting news – Commute From Hell: 23 miles in 8.5 hours http://bit.ly/grO3sQ [...]
January 27th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Slander us for putting up with crime and Vince Gray, an uncertain school system (as if the burbs are better, but hey)–but we gentrifiers didn’t have to put up with that. And we never lost power.
January 28th, 2011 at 11:02 am
[...] video was found at WeLoveDC. It is a compressed version of one DC commuter’s 8.5 hour drive home Wednesday night. It took [...]
January 28th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
[...] We did avoid the commute from hell, though. [...]
January 31st, 2011 at 8:12 pm
[...] You may have heard about the resulting traffic nightmare in which almost everyone’s commute took hours longer than usual, and some people were stuck at a standstill for 13 hours. Fortunately, my commute took about five [...]