Whether you live in a zip in Washington DC or in Toronto Canada, one thing is true; complaining about traffic is both a Canada trade mark and a US one as well. In big and really busy cities like Washington, the commute is even worse than elsewhere. If you don't plan your route back and forth with care every day, you can spend as much time in traffic as you would in a morning at work. If working from your home is not an option open to you, it's a good idea to know what you can do for your daily commute.

Now, we know there will always be people who insist on driving their own cars to their jobs in design PCB prototyping, it can't be avoided. But there are ways to make your commute easier even if you are driving. First, try to car pool with as many people as possible. You'll have company, you'll save on gas, you'll keep three or four other vehicles from clogging the roads, and you will be helping the Earth too. Not to mention, you will be able to use those high occupancy lanes legally, and that often means getting into town faster.

If you are one of the miserable people in your car out on the road day after day (reports indicate that Washington residents spend more hours in their commute than any other North American city but Los Angeles) make sure you have the radio and GPS on. Traffic reports can alert you to blockages ahead before you get in reach of them. You can deke around the vacuum truck services, emergency vehicles, and other clean up traffic if you know to get to an off ramp in time.

Equipment such as Onstar and GPS can be really useful for this purpose as well. If you are on your way home after a busy day overseeing robotic packaging and hear of an accident on your main route, find an alternate through one of these useful digital tools. The money you spend on purchase and subscription is well worth it in terms of time, gas, and wear and tear on your vehicle.

All that said, if you are still wasting all your time in your own vehicle on the roads of Washington DC on your way to work at a post card printing company, we have to ask why. This city has one of the most integrated, affordable, and well running public transit systems in the world, administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. There are streetcars and buses running between neighborhoods, subways that run the length of the city and into Maryland and Virginia, and local bus systems besides. The subways are rapid transit to cut down on commute time, and getting to them is a simple matter. If you're tired of sitting around in DC traffic, maybe it's time to use your vehicle for vacations only and start taking advantage of rapid public transit.