Unhappy motorists

Jason Butler lives in MetroWest, works on Congress Street. He reports:

Boy, it sucks to work on Congress Street and drive in from the west these days.

They've closed another section of the Big Dig this morning, and all the traffic on from the Mass Pike is flowing onto the surface streets all around us. I'm not looking forward to trying to find a way onto the Pike this afternoon when I have to go home. ...

Ed. question: Imagine if all this were happening when everybody was at work, like March? Or during a snowstorm? Oh, wait, what was that Romney said about the tunnels possibly being closed for months?

Perhaps one of those diverted motorists was the tractor-trailer driver who apparently became so exhausted by the ordeal this morning that he just stopped his 18-wheeler right in the middle of Devonshire Place and took a nap.

On Boston Crazy Driving, Tim outlines some suggestions for relieving the current traffic woes that, being sensible, will of course never be done, such as temporarily opening HOV lanes to all motorists.