The traffic is one of the reasons the wife and I were prompted to start taking classes at the downtown Y a couple of years ago. We do classes at 5:30am Mon, Weds, Fri. and just do elliptical on our own at 6am the other mornings. In the evenings we do 5:30pm classes on Tues, Weds, Thurs and elliptical the other two days. We miss all the traffic and the Y is only 3 blocks for our offices. Starts your day off great and its good for us. Several other people in our classes were prompted by the same thing.