Beat The Cape Cod Traffic
You’re cruising down the highway headin’ to the Cape, music playing, everybody blissfully anticipating a memory-making vacation. Life is good. Then it hits. TRAFFIC! Miles and miles of TRAFFIC. All of a sudden, in one dastardly moment, everything changes. Oh sure everybody tries to maintain that good mood for a while. The music continues to play. People are still smiling but the smiles are fading fast. Things are quieting down. You start calculating how long you are going to be stuck in traffic. Finally somebody mutters a single four-letter word and the misery has set in. The only thing worse than this scenario is the one that occurs at the end of your vacation, heading off the Cape. Then you’re anticipating a long ride home with nothing to look forward to but going back to work the next day.
People work themselves up into an absolute frenzy worrying about the Cape traffic. Every weekend during the summer there are news teams stationed at the rotaries. News helicopters hover over the bridges. The airways resound with the reports on the miles of traffic leading to the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. These reports literally drive people away from the Cape.
I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to sit in traffic anymore. I have lived on the Cape, traveling the bridges and rotaries several times a day for the past for 14 years. I very rarely get stuck in traffic. When I do have a problem I am never bumper-to-bumper more than 5 or 10 minutes.
The worst times for traffic are Friday evening or Saturday morning coming on the Cape and Sunday, all day, is the most difficult time for getting off the Cape. One of the biggest frustrations is that you don’t know if the bridges are backed up until it’s too late (don’t trust the traffic reports). The key is to get off the highways early, before you get stuck in traffic, even if the traffic seems to be moving along fine. When you are traveling along the highway you have to ask yourself, "Do I feel lucky?" If you decide to gamble by staying on the highway you won’t find out there is traffic until mile or two before the bridge or rotary. By this time it’s too late. You are stuck. A couple of miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic can take forever.
There is a better way. If you are willing to drive a few extra miles out of your way and invest a few extra minutes traveling back roads, you can save yourself hours of misery. Just follow these simple directions to ensure a more relaxing vacation on the Cape.
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