I live & work in Southern California, and noticed that the daily morning & evening commutes tend to be the worst on Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Why is that?
Serious answers only please.
2007-08-28 04:52:14 · 6 answers · asked by Flying_Bears_are_Cool 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Los Angeles
We see the same thing in Sacramento, I think its due to people ditching work Mondays and Fridays. People are taking long weekends and taking Fridays off or calling out sick for the extra day making the morning commute here easier but once afternoon hits everyone is on the rad heading out of town. Then Monday morning all the alcoholics are calling in sick from the binge drinking weekend.
2007-08-28 07:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by steven v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know you want serious answers, but I offer up some wild guesses:
1. More traffic on the highways on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to everybody going to work. I'm guessing that most people call in sick on Mondays to recover from their weekends, and ditch work on Fridays to leave for their weekends early.
2. Pay attention to what ships and how many are in San Pedro and Long Beach. If a ship arrives Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, it will be unloaded by Monday and the cargo containers sent out on the big rig trucks by Tuesday, putting more trucks out on the road. Cargo space on those ships will have been arranged by Wednesday, on Thursday more trucks incoming will start arrive to load up the ship to set sail by Friday or Saturday. More ships in the harbor, more trucks on the L.A. Freeways heading in and out.
3. This is going to sound silly, but work with me here. Tuesdays and Thursdays are soccer practice days (or baseball or gymnastics or club football or whatever), so there are more "soccer moms" on the roads carting their kids to practices (10 years of AYSO - I should know), filling up the roads off the freeways.
4. Hollywood is still the major film capitol of the world, and there are still a lot of projects in production at all of the studios. Most studios have a regular number of people for regular production work such as set builders, sound and lighting techs, costumers, computer animators, and the people who work only on the credits. The numbers swell when actors, actresses, extras, people from the ad agencies, people from the production company, and 50 producers have to show up on filming days which tend to get serious midweek. Thursdays and Fridays are taping days for most sitcoms, so everybody plus the studio audience has to show up for the taping. So more people are on the roads to get to the studios and film locations. (They really hate working on Fridays, and especially weekends, so they try to get as much done as they can by Thursday, if they can help it.)
After that, I couldn't tell you. Some wild guesses, but most of it from personal experience why I was on the road more often midweek.
2007-08-28 12:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by enn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who work on weekends typically work Tuesdays and/or Thursdays, too.
2007-08-28 16:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see a pattern. Tuesday, Thursday, Traffic. They all start with the letter "T". That may have something to do with your answer.
2007-08-28 11:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by Mark D 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
People try to strech their weekends. So a lot are MIA on Mondays and Fridays....
2007-08-28 16:57:48 · answer #5 · answered by Paris Hilton 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because tuesday and thursday are considered evil days.
people try to get out of their houses because that's where the evil lives.
2007-08-28 11:55:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋