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The whole corridor from I-40 to Gatlinburg is the worst place I've ever been. Often takes over an hour to cover a 15 mile distance.
This is a fact, ive had the same experience. There is a back way into the Pigeon forge, Gatlinburg area but you have to enter from the Knoxville area. Everyone uses the Sevierville exit off 40 to get to the tourist areas. I literally spent 3 hours going from Gatlinburg to I-40 once. I came from North Carolina and did not know there was some bike or car show in Pigeon forge. Boy did I screw up, worse traffic than LA.
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I think, and in some of the cases I'm about to list would suspect, any rural area near the intersection of interstates is going to have heavy traffic as well. Point in case is Effingham, Illinois, where Interstates 57 and 70 cross paths, or where 57 meets 64 further south.
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This is a fact, ive had the same experience. There is a back way into the Pigeon forge, Gatlinburg area but you have to enter from the Knoxville area. Everyone uses the Sevierville exit off 40 to get to the tourist areas. I literally spent 3 hours going from Gatlinburg to I-40 once. I came from North Carolina and did not know there was some bike or car show in Pigeon forge. Boy did I screw up, worse traffic than LA.
What causes this traffic? Is it a major freight route, tourism (local or outside), etc.?
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I think, and in some of the cases I'm about to list would suspect, any rural area near the intersection of interstates is going to have heavy traffic as well. Point in case is Effingham, Illinois, where Interstates 57 and 70 cross paths, or where 57 meets 64 further south.
While you're talking Illinois, also I-39 and I-90 near Rockford. WHAT A MESS -- seemingly any day of the week, time of the day!
Route 1, Maine. It is the only road in and out for much of the Maine coast. Very crowded during the summer obviously.
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