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14 miles daily to school in San Diego, is this a lot? FWY traffic info needed please.?

  • I'm moving there in a couple of months, the nursing school I'm going to isn't in an area I want to live in, so the apt that I want is 14 miles from the school via Mapquest. Is this excessive or normal? I will be going 805 S bound. How is the traffic around 7:30am and 5:30pm? I currently live in L.A, so I am used to bad traffic, but would like to know is the 805 bumper to bumper the way the L.A freeways are? Thanks. Also Approximately how many miles do you drive per day ?

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    Hi there! Welcome to SD from LA! In San Diego, 14 miles isn't too bad. At 7:30a, you should be able to fly on the 805 South since the worst traffic at that hour is trying to go North into La Jolla. As for 5:30p in the evening, expect major bottlenecks around La Jolla (Sorrento Valley/MiraMesa Blvd, La Jolla Blvd, Noble Dr) and more bottlenecking trying to merge onto the 8 East and/or Mission Gorge (assuming you're going to SDSU). If you're attending USD (requires 8 West, which has little traffic in the evening with the exception of cars exiting Mission Center Rd.) or another school, then you should be good to go. I've enclosed two great sites for checking traffic here. Hope this makes sense. The good news is that you're sure to move a whole lot faster here than anywhere in LA at these times no matter how bad our traffic might be. The only thing that messes us up are: rain (seriously!), bridge/road signs/power lines collapsing on freeway (rarity) and of course major accidents.

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my job is 36 miles away from home, one way...my college is about 15 miles away, one way. I dont think it is a bad drive (14 miles that is)...I live in Atlanta so I have to deal with A LOT of stop and go traffic, its very annoying...but not enough to drop out of college or quit my job!

~*PeAcHy*~

Most of the traffic on the 805 is headed northbound to Kearny Mesa, Golden Triangle/Sorrento Valley area in the MORNING. In the evening it all heads southbound into the South Bay Area and the traffic on it is pretty bad, but not the worse in SD County. So it sounds like you might be doing the reverse commute if you are going 805 SB in the morning and NB in the evening so it won't be bad. What you might want to do is go to Traffic.com in the morning and evenings and check out what the traffic is like at that time so it can give you a good idea what normal patterns are like. They have this feature that allows you to choose where you get on and off the freeway and it will approximate the travel time based on current traffic conditions. It's not that excessive and probably pretty close to what a lot of people drive. I drive 30 miles each way from Pacific Beach to Carlsbad everyday and the evenings southbound on I-5 are horrible; mornings are fine though. edit: you shouldn't have a problem then, when i worked downtown and lived in La Jolla/UTC area there was never traffic heading south in the morning or north in the evening. That's actually a good spot to be located b/c most of the traffic is heading there in the morning and out of there in the evening so you'll have the reverse.

Sav

805s from where? Actually come to think about it. 805 is bad during those times.... but say from where you are starting? I can give you a better idea.

usinf

HELLO MIA, without knowing the area from which you are starting, it is difficult to give you the information you are asking. However, in my opinion a 14 mile commute is pretty good. At 7:30 a.m. the traffic in any direction isn't bumper to bumper, but at 5:30p.m. the traffic will be pretty congested. I have an 18 mile one way commute and although the traffic is annoying, it gives me a chance to unwind after work. Good luck and welcome to San Diego.....you will love it here.

sweetness #1

Southbound 805 is not too crowded in the morning, but northbound is usually gridlocked. The opposite is true in the afternoon as well, as many commuters work in Sorrento Valley and the Golden Triangle (area border by the 5, 805 and 52 freeways). The 5 north of the 5-805 split is extremely heavy southbound all the way up to Carlsbad in the morning and vice-versa in the afternoon (think 405-type traffic). Realtime San Diego traffic information is available at the link below. Also, if you have XM satellite radio, you can get continuous San Diego traffic and weather on channel 223.

sd_beach_bum

not a sbad as la la traffic but this is still a large city. and you will be in the middle of it at those times. Especially in the summer time when the fair and races are going.

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