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School's back in session: Is traffic really worse?
AUGUST 10, 2015 STONE MOUNTAIN Students, parents and teachers converge on Woodridge Elementary school in Stone Mountain on the first day of classes, Monday August 10, 2015. Metro Atlanta area teachers and students headed back to school on Monday as Fulton, Gwinnett and DeKalb students all started Monday. Cobb and Atlanta Public Schools began school this week without major problems, education officials report. KENT D. JOHNSON /KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
The kids are back. The buses are rolling. Moms and dads are driving junior to the fourth grade.
And your commute just went south, toward hell.
Are the roads really more crowded when school goes back in session? We asked the Georgia Department of Transportation, which ran comparative traffic counts for us at nearly 20 key locations around metro Atlanta — about half of them interstates and the rest surface streets.
The results might surprise you. Some of the interstate locations are actually better. Really. The surface streets? Well, make sure you have plenty of gas.
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