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Friday, October 31, 2008
Trick-or-treat! Have some traffic!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sure, everybody place celebrates Halloween with a smidge of local flavor. I’ve seen Halloween parades before, but nothing quite like what I saw during the aftermath of Little Five Point’s.
Another thing that gives our celebration a unique flavor: traffic.
Turns out that Atlanta has pre-trick-or-treat traffic jams that live on in Halloween lore, like in 1996, when drivers were trapped around Perimeter Mall of three hours, or in 2005, when Halloween fell on the first Monday after the end of daylight savings time. Read: mass confusion and darkness an hour earlier. (Who knew? Not me. I guess it makes sense.)
So how bad does it get? Will you take the day off or leave early to ensure Halloween success?
This story by Ariel Hart says it might not be all that bad — you know, for a Friday rush hour in Atlanta.
Alas, I’ll be celebrating as I do every year: with a pre-nightfall battle for the last bag of Snickers at the nearest store. As always, I forgot to buy candy.
For more Halloween coverage, check out today’s to-do list of events and the AJC holiday guide.
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