"It's comically bad. I'll sit on my porch and just watch the traffic,"
"My kids will call me and want me to pick them up in town, and I'm just like 'Walk!'"
"It used to be that Thursday and Friday were really bad, but now it feels like it's every day, and the constant beeping makes it sound like we're in a major city,"
"We now have a policy for afternoon appointments where we give everyone 10 minutes to be late before we call to see if they're coming, because we know they're stuck in traffic."
Georgetown's downtown resembles a typical small New England Main Street with a bank, pizza places, barber shops, a gas station, a nail salon, two yoga studios, and a longstanding hobby shop. A traffic light anchors the center where East and West Main streets meet Central and North Streets. State routes 97 and 133 run through those streets and function as cut-throughs between I-95 and I-495, producing heavy congestion. At rush hour the queue at the light can take up to 20 minutes to clear. The traffic has increased beyond traditional peak days, increasing noise and prompting businesses to change appointment policies while customers park farther away and walk to avoid driving into town.
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