Ugh. Three years ago I went to Maine for a visit. Traffic started to back up just east of Albany and it was almost bumper to bumper all the way to the NH-ME line. Never again.
That's about right! My son has to drive in that to commute for work in MD or DC. Some evenings, he has to get off at some exit and go to a restaurant to wait it out an hour or so. I grew up in the Chicago area. I thought that rush hour was bad ... it was nothing compared to this.