Hey all,
When we went to WDW in 2008, it was our first trip with our first kid. We opted to take the Autotrain, and drove down 95 to get there. Our most recent trip in 2010, we drove straight down, but we stayed on 95 as much as possible and got PUMMELED with DC traffic. We drove at night thinking it wouldn't be so bad, but they were doing construction. We had an hour of inch-by-inch traffic, got to drive about a mile and a half at regular speed than ANOTHER hour of inch-by-inch traffic.
So the next trip, again driving, we're thinking about trying to bypass much of the DC traffic by going down 301 through Annapolis, La Plata & Bowling Green before getting back on 95. We will still do most of the driving overnight.
Now we've driven 301 once or twice before (I can't remember which, god I'm old). And I remember it being fairly quick, fairly quiet. Probably not as fast if we drove through DC with no traffic, but good luck having no traffic in DC.
But from what I'm reading, it seems like 301 is far more developed than it was 7 or 8 years ago when we used it last (or, used it first). Which makes me think, even late at night, it's going to be a lot of stop-and-go due to stoplights.
Has anyone used 301 to bypass 95 recently? Is it fairly well developed? Am I misremembering and it was ALWAYS that well-developed? Did you think it was worth it to avoid 95 through DC? Yea or nay?
When we went to WDW in 2008, it was our first trip with our first kid. We opted to take the Autotrain, and drove down 95 to get there. Our most recent trip in 2010, we drove straight down, but we stayed on 95 as much as possible and got PUMMELED with DC traffic. We drove at night thinking it wouldn't be so bad, but they were doing construction. We had an hour of inch-by-inch traffic, got to drive about a mile and a half at regular speed than ANOTHER hour of inch-by-inch traffic.
So the next trip, again driving, we're thinking about trying to bypass much of the DC traffic by going down 301 through Annapolis, La Plata & Bowling Green before getting back on 95. We will still do most of the driving overnight.
Now we've driven 301 once or twice before (I can't remember which, god I'm old). And I remember it being fairly quick, fairly quiet. Probably not as fast if we drove through DC with no traffic, but good luck having no traffic in DC.
But from what I'm reading, it seems like 301 is far more developed than it was 7 or 8 years ago when we used it last (or, used it first). Which makes me think, even late at night, it's going to be a lot of stop-and-go due to stoplights.
Has anyone used 301 to bypass 95 recently? Is it fairly well developed? Am I misremembering and it was ALWAYS that well-developed? Did you think it was worth it to avoid 95 through DC? Yea or nay?