For the Wednesday traveler, you should be okay if you leave at 7:30 a.m. For southbound, I often take the exit right before the HOV ends (Route 234 to Manassas, I believe) to avoid the backup caused by merging HOV traffic onto 95 from the left. Early (before 9 a.m.) or really late (after 10 p.m.), you should be okay.ģ. However, if you leave before 8 a.m., it should be okay.
Saturday south is usually bad in the summer. My wife and I drive to Richmond about twice a month to see relatives. I don’t have a remedy, just a thought that next time we’ll leave even earlier. Seems to me that we were on the road from Chevy Chase by 6 a.m., but got really bogged down in very heavy traffic from the Occoquan through Fredericksburg and really until the I-295 split just north of Richmond. Having done this a few times, it can be really, really heavy. There are no other reasonable alternatives, something that seems to be lost on the Virginia Department of Transportation, who’s primary solution to the problem is to add high-occupancy toll lanes to I-95. The problem is that the only alternatives are to go 30+ miles out of your way to drive on I-81 or sit through lights and local traffic on Route 1. on Sunday nights northbound), there’s a serious problem. It’s bad enough when it backs up during weekday rush hours, but when the road consistently backs up for 20+ miles on weekends (even after 10 p.m. This is quite possibly the worst stretch of highway traffic in the country. It’s better the earlier you can leave, but you can forget getting south of Fredericksburg in less than two hours after 9 a.m. Southbound on I-95 on Saturday mornings is atrocious from the Capital Beltway all the way to Fredericksburg. There are two stations in the Richmond area: downtown and Waples Mill. Trains leave out of D.C.’s Union Station and also Alexandria to head south. Personally, I would tell this writer that he really should go the night before and get a hotel room and stay the night in Richmond. I’ll draw on suggestions for our annual guide to summer escapes, which we’re planning for the May 20 Commuter page in The Post. Please add your own advice in the comments section below. There’s some variation in their responses, but most warn of heavy traffic and advise very early or very late travel. Here they are, with the responses to the midweek traveler coming first, followed by the summertime look-ahead. Another was doing far more advanced scouting, planning a southbound trip starting on an August weekend.Īs often happens, many readers wanted to be helpful to both travelers, but I couldn’t get to all their responses before the chat had to end.
WASHINGTON POST DR GRIDLOCK DRIVER
One driver had a midweek meeting in Richmond at 10 a.m.
Maybe it’s the approach of Memorial Day weekend and the start of the summer driving season: Several travelers asked during Monday’s online chat for advice about traffic conditions on Interstate 95 south of D.C.
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