just a simple question guys i really want to know the answer to this.
why is Friday traffic significant less than other weekdays?? i always drive to work and takes me 1 hr all other days except for fridays why is this the case?
i live in sydney
[SYD] Why is Friday traffic significant less than other weekdays??
ajjkh225 on 20/05/2018 - 20:12
Last edited 21/05/2018 - 08:32 by 1 other user
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My mind is blown by your discovery
My mind is blown by the ~30 plus votes nicread got.
not sure why you were downvoted, what you said makes sense to me.
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I don't understand the downvote, that was a reasonable explanation. Have a +1
Let me try to explain. The reason for the downvote is probably due to less people clicking the "+" than people that click "-". Not sure why there are less people clicking "+" for that particular comment but that would be a silly question…
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can't believe the original gets the downvote and the copycat gets the upvote, such reality is very cruel indeed.
It is a Yes from me, even a golden buzzer! You go to the next level!
You guys are hilarious. All of you who commented, upvoted and downvoted. You all go to the next level.
I wish more people could see the fun side of that comment though.
People taking their ADOs on Friday?
ADO?
He probably meant RDO (rostered day off).
It is called an Accrued Day Off. An RDO is a day when they are not rostered for work, an ADO is a day accumulated by working 3 weeks of 40 hours and one of 32 hours instead of 4 weeks of 38 hours per week. It only applies to Full Time workers. Means you still work 152 hours per 4 week period.
@peterlong1952: rdo or ado same thing, depending on how your employer like to call it. If your full-time shift worker you can get accrued too and it's normally called Rdo.
They call them RDOs where I work (somewhere you would have heard of), and it is also accumulated by making up the time each week.
@peterlong1952: Wait what if you're not paid for your lunch break? I.e Your payslip says 7.5 hours per day, do you still just work constantly without any days off? Also how do 38 hour weeks work? Do people just finish at 4pm on Friday and start 10am Monday or something?
@charlesli679: Most people just do the same hours, but in industries where there is a heavy union presence there are some clock watchers… so RDO/ADO's are their way of balancing things out
Yep, lots of people have some choice about what days they go to work:
- ADOs and RDOs and annual leave and sickies
- People who work 4 days a week (or less) tend to not choose Fridays
- People who work from home for one day a week or more tend to do it on Fridays
(see also: Wednesday is the worst traffic day because the people who work Mon-Tue-Wed, and the people who work Wed-Thu-Fri both work that day).
No one works from home on a Friday. Friday is the day of long lunches, casual clothes, and office beers from 4pm onwards. No one wants to miss out on what is practically a day off.
But these people take the train! ;)
Thats the line I was thinking along. Not only RDO, as of course many people work for themselves or dont have RDO days.
Yet just the same, many people would he out of the city traffic come Friday, for an early start on their weekend. I hypothesize that many persons would also work a 3-4 day week, and Friday would mostly be a chosen day off in such cases.
OP is being rather narrow minded (no offence) in thinking that just because he/she works 9-5 mon-friday, that everybody else does the same (then vanishes mysteriously from the motorways come friday) 😆
Probably combination of things including people sleeping in, going away for weekend, Friday sickies
Part timers and work from home people too. We have quite a few people in my company who work 3 or 4 days and not Friday or work from home on Friday.
i get to work in 30 mins on friday. whereas it takes 45-60 mins on other days. lol
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LOL!
Yeah I've noticed this too. Every single Friday, I get to work so much faster.
Took me an hour plus on Friday. 30-40 mins on any other days. I do not want your Friday, thx.
Ps: Sydney also.
- Early start early finish for certain works
- RDOs
- People tend to finish early on Friday
- Sick leaves so they can have a long weekend
- People go to pubs /bar after work and thereafter majority of them use public transport
- Late night shopping
- Hospitality industry start late on Fridays
It could be an RDO day. Some places I've worked at employees work a 9 day fortnight with half the workforce having one Friday off and the other half having the next Friday off. Other places might take Monday off instead.
It could be people getting to work earlier so they can work 4 hours straight without a lunch break and leave early in the day. A 38 hour week enables some people to work 8 hours a day from Monday to Thursday and then only needing to work 4 on the Friday. They could work the afternoon but the vast majority of places where a 4.5 work week is common where I've worked at usually leave earlier on Friday instead.
Could be anything….maybe students are out partying on student night Thursday night and don't have lectures scheduled for Friday morning so they don't travel.
So you work 4 days * 8 hours, then a 4 hour day and that equals 38 to you
Fml
Shh… Don't tell the boss that the math doesn't add up.
He got an upvote so other people must use the same maths at work.
At one job I found people using one clock as start time (slow) and another as home time (fast).
Do you mean 4 * 8.5 hour days, and then work 4 hours on Friday?
Most rdo’s are on Fridays
People getting train so can get blotto after work
Most common day for sickies
Most common day to bail early
Also it's a very common working from home day. Most people in our office work from home on Fridays.
Yeh true, but I think that’s not the optimal life hack.
I work from home Wednesday, so never more than 2 early mornings. Up before 9 is early for me, like right now.
Plus Friday is casual day so one less work shirt to iron, and people bail early anyway, so this is the best day to work.
If I need a long weekend I just change it that week.
Also Wednesdays are unlikely to be public holidays. If you have your work-from-home day on Friday, and it's a public holiday, you see little benefit (you wouldn't have to go into work in either case). At least Wednesdays won't be public holidays.
hehehe blotto. this is the best answer
What suburbs do you drive through?
Some people take Fridays off for one thing or another, other people get days off work and choose to put it on the Friday for a long weekend (though personally I'd put it on a Monday).
But I personally think quite a few companies have drink nights on Fridays where they go off and hit up a bar or something, so guessing people leave their car at home or go home late on those days.
It could be because of the moon’s position in relation to the earth’s rotation. On fridays, cars are less likely to drive due to magnetic interference from the sun. Don’t worry, you don’t seem to be affected by these meaningless movements.
Friday afternoon/evening traffic in the Melbourne CBD is a nightmare.
I second this. In Melbourne it is the complete opposite. Fridays are the absolute worst day of the week in terms of traffic.
Also, in Melbourne RDOs are usually taken on a Monday (as opposed to Friday for Sydney people)Man, everything's backwards in that shithole (Just kidding, my sister lives in Melbourne and I freakin envy her)
I third this, its because many of the CBD car-parks have weekend rates, or you can try your luck with free on street parking after a certain time.
That's not a Syndey-Melbourne thing, everywhere has terrible traffic 5-7pm on Friday nights, because you've got both commuters going home and people going out for the night.
QUICK QUESTION
That was presuming.
A lot of people on Friday might do something after work be it dinner with their colleagues or partner, attending a sporting match, go for some drinks with friends, birthdays etc… So they'll probably grab a train and not drive.
Also working from home is a big thing now days is pretty popular. If you wanted to go away for a weekend you could work from home and then head off when you finish work.
why is Friday traffic significant less than other weekdays??
Where are you?
For me, Fridays has some of the worst afternoon traffic of the entire week!?
Agreed, just try getting to Gosford from Sydney on a Friday afternoon.
I avoid doing it at all costs, too many people getting away to their weekender's I guess?
Going home for me on friday is at probably a 30% longer drive
Booze busses?
Personally I work from home on Friday just to spite the OP as I know I'd drives them up the wall.
I wfh…
I usually assume it's because of a combination of people taking fridays off and those who expect to be going out for a drink after work and not wanting to drive in.
Another "quality" forum topic.
Totally relevant. As there is less traffic, Friday is the cheaper day to work in terms of time and petrol.
I have decided to wind back my weeks and just work Fridays from now on thanks to this post.
I've decided to rename every working day Friday so I'll spend less time on the road.
Less people drive to work on Friday's because they want to go have some after work drinks? Hence leave the car at home and get public transport… Just a theory ??
How confident are you with apostrophes?
You two can learn together.
this is australia people are taking sickies on friday to get a long weekend
I love to live at OP's bludger suburb.
A few things are happening here:
- Some office workers only do 4 day weeks.
- RDO
- Sickies
- Friday drinks after work (if people are planning to head out for a few after work they are less likely to, and shouldn't, drive)because everyone's at the pub
because you can't/shouldn't drink and drive hence fewer car on Friday..
I work 4 days a week so have every Friday off..
When i drove to work, Friday mornings was the faster trip in. Friday afternoons was the slowest.
Maybe people get into work later on Fridays and then all still leave exactly at 5pmIf a stretch of road can cater for 100 cars/minute, traffic flows fine whether there's 1 car on it or 95: everyone can just drive at or around the speed limit. So on your typical workday, you may see a number just about 100 causing jams and delays - when this number is 95 on Fridays, it doesn't impact you (ie 'traffic is light'). So it could just be 5% less traffic causing you a smooth ride. Most part-timers don't work on Fridays, you can see this at daycares everywhere: Friday is a quiet day.
Also during school holidays
Number of reasons happening all at once.
- Sick leaves
- People do other activities after work on fridays, so they dont all hit the road same time as any other weekday
- Take the public transport so can Drink and don’t worry about driving afterwards
- leaving early to go on family trips.
My wife’s office requires a medical certificate for sick leaves on fridays and mondays just because of 1st one :-)
You drive slower on Mon-Thurs
It is very much the opposite in Brisbane, Friday afternoon and into early night is always consistently busy.
Yes and morning commute to the city is quiet
Tradies knocking off early= artificial early rush hour that rolls into full rush hour is mitigated
I have wondered this in the past, from what I know there are a few reasons:
1. Part Timers traditionally do not work on Fridays.
2. If people have the opportunity to do so, more people "work from home" on a Friday
3. ADOs or RDOs are usually taken more around a Weekend.I catch the same train M-F and I have noticed that they definitely seem busier Fridays. +1 for the “catch public transport and get blotto” as mentioned by others.
I'm in Sydney and I drive from East to West Mon-Fri and I don't notice Friday has less cars on the road.
People leave work early on Fridays
back when i drove to work, i'd quite often catch the train fridays so i could go out after work (drinks, events, etc)
probably more common in footy/rugby seasonnow that i ride to work (melbourne), friday night is utter chaos on the road, seems to be heaps more cars on a friday evening trying to get out of the city. especially on a long weekend
Easy, people get wasted on friday
OP - Wait until it is summer school holidays. Every morning you'll be getting to work in 20 minutes in Sydney. The M4 is a dream then.
Rather surprised by this backed up by so many agreeing comments.
I was a courier 2000 - 2002, so on the road all day every week day. Back then the traffic was unquestionably MUCH worse on Friday than any other regular day. For example, heading in to the city on a Friday arvo along Victoria Road was stationary from at least Gladesville Bridge onward. Traffic through the city itself was a nightmare all afternoon.
Also we had many more delivery jobs on Fridays, which probably indicates greater truck activity on Fridays too. It was made doubly worse on wet days, and doubled again if it was the first wet day after a long period of dry days!
Of course, it got worse the day before a long weekend (add early holiday traffic & extra deliveries). And the less said about the week before Christmas the better…
there is a secret club called the friday morning masturbation club. this club not only benefits the members wellbeing but assists the population at large by decreasing morning peak hour traffic (as our members are still in bed).
Except in Melbourne where you can guarantee some halfwit will cause a crash on the western ringroad rushing to get home at 5
Because… Thursday, Friday happy day!
Why does it rain less on a wednesday than it does a Monday?
El nino?
RDO's
Could it be because Fridays are poets days
Push - Off - Early - Tomorrows - Saturday
lol
Because most go out on Friday night after work and get plastered to wipe all memory of the working week that transpired.. which requires a taxi/uber ride home.
The same way clubs are a dude ranch when its rained because women dont like frizz
The same way theres bumper to bumper traffic on either side of a motorway despite the accident being on the other side because people "turkey neck"
The same way Sydney traffic comes to a halt when theres a major event at olympic park because every (profanity) tries to get into the left-most two lanes for parking because of the perceived ease of exit after
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