Cape Cod Labor Day Traffic - Bad as Ever

I live about three miles from the Sagamore Bridge. That's one of two bridges that gets people on and off Cape Cod. Every Sunday during the summer, we see heavy traffic and backups on Route 6A which is just around the corner from my house. Labor Day is just about as bad as traffic gets and today was no exception.

Everyone was very well behaved, there was no road rage and we all survived it. I'm just glad that I wasn't sitting in it. I ventured out to take this video, pick up a few things at the supermarket and then came home. I admit that I haven't left the yard again.

There's talk of adding a third bridge. Right now there are two bridges with 4 lanes on and 4 lanes off. A third bridge will add another two, maybe three lanes. Just what good will that do when we are looking at these tie-ups. All that will do is encourage more people and more cars to clog our streets. Oh wait, then they will want to make the Cape Cod roads bigger. Remember the Joni Mitchell song, The Paved Paradise and Made a Parking Lot. That's about what that would be.

Cape Cod Memorial Day Traffic Nightmare Begins

Traffic Started Backing Up at 9:30 am

I truly think coming to Cape Cod for Memorial Day weekend is the dumbest thing anyone could do. People sit in traffic for hours to get here, then they try and leave at the same time on Monday. That's a lot of effort for not much down time.

Anyways this is Route 6A at the intersection of Dewey Avenue, which is about 4 miles from the Sagamore Bridge.  I live around the corner from here. Normally the traffic just whizzes by. Not today. Although I am a bit surprised that traffic started backing up as early as it did. Usually it's later on a sunny day. 

I picked up Mom to go to the Stop & Shop and Sandwich Marina about 9 am. Traffic was completely normal. I had told Mom that we probably wouldn't go anywhere else because of the traffic. As I left the Sandwich Marina, I told her we would go explore an old cemetery, the traffic was still light. I was really shocked at the traffic backup that happened in only one hour.  This was the scene at 10 am. One of the people who live on Route 6A said it slowed to a crawl at about 9:30 am.

Usually Route 6A will back up about 15 to 20 miles on a typical Memorial weekend. I do resent it a bit, because we can't ever have a Memorial Day barbecue or go to one out of the neighborhood. No one is willing to fight the traffic.