What's traffic like from VA to Germantown MD around 7:00 PM on 495->270?

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Old 05-17-2005, 11:58 AM
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What's traffic like from VA to Germantown MD around 7:00 PM on 495->270?
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shouldn't be too bad - it's a reverse commute, no?
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Default sometimes between the toll road and the 270 spur, traffic lingers that late

at that time, I have seen it stop-n-go. If you catch it on a good day, it should still be fairly heavy, but moving.
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Oops, read it wrong - thought it read 7am.
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Default you should be fine by 7:00...

traffic on 270 tends to die down some by then although you may hit some light traffic. 495 on the inner loop isnt too bad. its always moving smoothly when im on the outer loop that time of the evening
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Default Depends if there was anything unusual that happened earlier

495 may still be high volume (35 MPH average) if there was anything at all that day going on.

Once you get to 270 it should be 7:30 and fairly clear with moderate volume. Unless there was some delay earlier.
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Default I do that run every day. After 6:30 it opens up. Fridays are worse.

From the Toll Road to 270 it'll take from 20 to 30 minutes on average. For some reason Fridays are nuts. It all lightens up during Summer.
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Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's backed up well into 8pm...no rhyme or reason
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Default Fridays are crazy because all the Pittsburgh natives are headed back there for the weekend.

I used to hate doing that drive on Friday afternoons/evenings.
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