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Originally Posted by Pat_RI
Hello,
I’m driving down from the RI border on the 23rd and I am thinking of hopping on the road at 5PM so I should hit NY around 8PM and DC I’m guessing around 11PM. Last time I drove and hit DC at 11pm it was a 2 hour delay due to them do construction at night. Should I try and avoid DC if so is there an alternative route around?
Merry Christmas
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Your estimates are spot on. If it were me, I’d leave at 7:30 in the morning. You would hit some traffic heading into CT, but avoid the worst traffic from New Haven, NYC and NJ. That would also put you around DC at 2 in the afternoon or so, right before the afternoon commute. You would hit traffic in Richmond however. Our spots to stop on the way down are either Rocky Mount or Lumberton NC. With it being a weekday and right before Christmas, I would shoot for Rocky Mount as a first day destination, my guesstimate is that you would be there by 7:30 pm