September 14, 2006
About this morning’s traffic jam from hell
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Today traffic from San Jose to Redwood City was badly snarled with the main bottleneck centered in Mountain View (California). Both directions of Highways 101 and 85 were parking lots and surface streets were equally impacted. At first the radio traffic reports could not find a cause, no accidents or construction reported anywhere. But soon the reason was known: Cisco had scheduled a company wide meeting of all 30,000 of its local employees at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View (next to Google and Sun’s old corporate buildings).The irony was not lost on me as I sat in traffic this morning. For a company whose job it is to get packets from here to there as quickly as possible, Cisco could have used some of its skills in routing (or at least carpooling) to avoid this mess.
Everyone at work had a traffic horror story today. I ended taking 85 to 101 to Amphitheatre up past Alza/Google and back down to Microsoft. My 10 minute commute of 5 miles became a 35 minute nightmare. Good thing I didn’t have any meetings at 10am!
I wonder how many of the Cisco employees made it there on time.
I hear that the Microsoft Company Meeting at Safeco field has a somewhat similar impact on traffic in the Safeco field area. That said, I do know that Microsoft is very very very aggressive about getting people to take buses from the Main Campus there – sometimes they offer raffle prizes and etc!
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5 Comments to “About this morning’s traffic jam from hell”
September 21st, 2006 at 12:49 pm
[...] The Cisco traffic jam continues to harm the reputations of Cisco party planners. I have a few friends who work at Cisco and they are — more than a week later — still livid about how their company handled their annual party. One worker there told me she was stuck in traffic for more than two hours and decided to simply turn around and go home. [...]
September 21st, 2006 at 1:00 pm
[...] The Cisco traffic jam continues to harm the reputations of Cisco party planners. I have a few friends who work at Cisco and they are — more than a week later — still livid about how their company handled their annual party. One worker there told me she was stuck in traffic for more than two hours and decided to simply turn around and go home. [...]
September 21st, 2006 at 1:42 pm
[...] The Cisco traffic jam continues to harm the reputations of Cisco party planners. I have a few friends who work at Cisco and they are — more than a week later — still livid about how their company handled their annual party. One worker there told me she was stuck in traffic for more than two hours and decided to simply turn around and go home. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:24 am
[...] The Cisco traffic jam continues to harm the reputations of Cisco party planners. I have a few friends who work at Cisco and they are — more than a week later — still livid about how their company handled their annual party. One worker there told me she was stuck in traffic for more than two hours and decided to simply turn around and go home. [...]
September 30th, 2006 at 11:00 am
I used to work at Sun Quentin and live on Calderon in Mountain View…there were days when it seemed to take hours to get up to Menlo Park. You’d think that the loss of so many jobs in the area would have reduced traffic.
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