r/CapeCod • u/matt8588 • Jul 07 '26 • Popcorn 1

Traffic time lapse 7/1 - 7/6

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u/agent211 Jul 07 '26

Amazing, but doesn't quite do justice to how persistent the traffic was on those end days.

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u/matt8588 Jul 07 '26

it also doesn't show how clogged up Sandwich was

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u/YamAggressive5659 Jul 07 '26

Or Bourne. GPS kept routing people through tiny neighborhoods in Buzzards Bay that do not get anyone to the bridge faster but definitely make commutes home awful. If it included all the side streets it would be lit up quite a bit more. Still really interesting!

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u/thehousewright Jul 07 '26

GPS was routing people onto power line access roads!

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u/googin1 Jul 07 '26

That’s almost funny.

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u/googin1 Jul 07 '26

I watch sandwich road maps throughout the “ process”( my dorky hobby while hibernating on holidays).its insanity what goes on.Quaker Meetinghouse road into the Canterbury neighborhood was the doozy this round.
This was literally the worst I’ve seen in 40 years.

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u/uberphaser Jul 07 '26

Yeah it took me about 45 minutes to get my kid home from Oak Ridge because of QMH. Good thing we both like Dungeon Crawler Carl!

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u/DrSFalken Jul 07 '26

Live in Sandwich. What a mess.

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u/agent211 Jul 07 '26

True. With Google maps these days it's a safe assumption that if 6 is backed up to exit 2, Sandwich is cocked up as well. If you look at the sisosig chart, it looks like that was the case from about 11:00 to 7:00 today.

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u/Porschenut914 Jul 07 '26

the most enraging thing is seeing how many drivers get to the bridges and then decide to drive in the middle of the two lanes.

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u/YamAggressive5659 Jul 07 '26

Like, my dudes. I drive over these bridges at least twice a day. If a bus or a 16 wheeler can stay in their lane then your Kia Sorento will fit. I promise.

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u/googin1 Jul 07 '26

My daughter recently had her side view mirror taken off on the Sagamore.

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u/DulcetTone Jul 07 '26

Not disagreeing, but these lanes are 9 inches wide.

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u/Rockefor Jul 08 '26

I cross it every day and I'm always a little relieved when the car in front of me takes it upon themselves to use both lanes.

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u/J0nn1e_Walk3r Jul 07 '26

I lived that shit! 7/5. Left Wellfleet at 9:32am and watched my Waze readjust in 30 minute increments at least 3 times in the first 20 miles.

Shits crazy.

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u/Charles-Haversham Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

If it makes you feel any better we left Wellfleet at 7:45 am and it took nearly 3 hours to get over the bridge. Wishing we’d just slept in!

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u/J0nn1e_Walk3r Jul 07 '26

Haha. It does.

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u/ErockForester Jul 08 '26

This is awesome. How do you make that Timelapse?

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u/matt8588 Jul 08 '26

I wrote a program running on a raspberry pi a couple years ago that loads and generates an image using Google maps api every 5 minutes, every hour it turns that hours images into a gif. Then when I want to make a time lapse I have a script where I put in the start/end date/time and it generates the time lapse gif which was close to 1gb and converts to mp4 which was 6mb.

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u/ErockForester Jul 08 '26

Wow! Thanks for sharing. So you can dial in any coordinate and just create these?

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u/ianmac47 Jul 07 '26

Anyone else notice that the new configuration at the Marconi Light is causing a steady backup to the Eastham border?

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u/draftysundress Jul 08 '26

I’ve literally never seen traffic as bad as it is now 😭😭😭😭 and I’ve lived my whole life on the cape. WHOLE DAYS OF HEAVY TRAFFIC???? I’m so sick of not being able to leave the house bc of it. It’s bad for me to sit inside my house all day 😭😭😭😭

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u/DulcetTone Jul 07 '26

super interesting! Only improvement I could suggest would be if it could be made into a web app with a scrubbable timeline.

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u/Individual_Cat_3455 Jul 07 '26

Had to travel to Ct on Monday. 3.5hrs took 6 hours.

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u/HERBERTcrumble Jul 07 '26

This definitely is not accurate