Bay Area freeway traffic has rebounded, but congestion has not. Is this the new normal?
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Interstate 580 is nearly empty near Harrison Street in Oakland in April.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Cars move comfortably along Highway 24 in Oakland in April. Caltrans data for the Bay Area’s nine counties shows that while traffic volume has rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels, actual congestion on freeways still remains lower than what it was before the pandemic.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
If John McDonald, a space flight engineer, commuted to work at UC Berkeley by car, he usually had a 15-minute window to leave his Pleasanton home in order to make it on time before Interstate 580 got clogged with miserable bumper-to-bumper traffic.