I've been to plenty of places with worse roads, that doesn't make an excuse for ours. we can and should always do better

I used to drive 28 a couple years back to hit bigelow and it took me about 40 mins during the same 7:30ish timeframe, nowadays its like 1h20m to get to east Carson. All my issues stem from right after the RIDC exit, the highland park bridge, the double merge just past it (etna maybe? Idk where that is specifically), and the spot where it junctions into the veterans bridge (which was always a little congested anyway)

because I leave an hour and 15 mins ahead of time to still be late for a normally 40 minute commute

nah i'd never ever live back in the city again

If there was no goofery happening on 28 it would take me 40 mins to drive to work.
My gps has me go the entire way down route 8 through the north side every other day because that 1h10m drive is actually *Shorter* than taking 28 some days lately.

fair enough. as far as biking is concerned, i'd have to leave 5 or 6 hours before work to make it on time, and public transport doesn't exist in the beautiful countryside