Since the pandemic, Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver said we're seeing shifts in when, where and who is commuting.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation says 95% of all drivers are now on the roads, which means that on any given day there are roughly 750,000 people commuting into the city.
Mark Van Der Hyde is one of the many people who are now able to work from home on the bookends of the weekend. But when he does have to drive into to Boston from Dracut mid-week, he expects bumper-to-bumper traffic. It's even worse if you're heading in from the South Shore. The average on the Expressway on Mondays at 8 a.m. is 56 minutes, but at the same time on Wednesdays, you're crawling in at 83 minutes.Take Route 3 north from Weymouth. In 2019, it would often peak at 5 a.m. and stay steady until around 9 a.m. At the same time last November, the duration of the worst traffic was cut in half, from 5 a.m. until 7 a.m.What has also changed is where people are commuting from.
"The people coming in from the west generally have types of jobs where they have those opportunities where they can work remotely," Gulliver said. The new breed of flexible workers also means that sometimes you'll run into traffic in the middle of the day.
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