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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Do you know what really fubared the traffic tonight? There was a basketball game scheduled for tonight - Duke playing at UNC - which the officials refused to cancel [it was going to be televised] - they were going to fill the arena with students from the dorms - let them in for free to be the TV audience ... they only cancelled it AFTER I got home - b/c the Duke bus couldn't get to UNC in time for the game! So thousands of fans were pouring into UNC - on route 54 - and leaving the same day on route 54 - all because of a frigging basketball game!
Sure! Blame the drivers trying to come home from work!
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Apologies, but I am pretty sure that it isn't the case. Roads were clogged by 1 pm and the game wasn't until 8 pm.
The real problem was that people had already abandoned their cars in lanes of travel by 1 pm even though the snow had only been falling for at most an hour. There wasn't even ice on the ground yet.
Turning a roadway into a slalom course only compounded the traffic and increased the gridlock.