What time is evening rush hour?

[NannaNoodleman]

What time do you think of as evening rush hour?

I said 4-5 is peak round where we live.

DH said he's always thought rush hour was 5-6 but can't name a single person who isn't home by 5pm!

So, come and join us in our tedious debate of the evening..

There are too many people on the roads...from my experience the rush hour starts earlier and finishes later at both ends of the day.

There are also a LOT of wealthy or non-working retired people where I live because actually in the middle of the day, it's very, very busy driving around our city and both the town centre and out of town shopping is just heaving all day every day.

Occasionally we have a tractor rally. Usually on Boxing Day.

Apart from that, I can’t say we have a rush hour.

5-6.30ish.
I also don’t know anyone who’s home by 4. I do know some teachers, but they tend to stay late to do marking etc. Most shops don’t close at 4 do they? I do know someone who works in local govt, they work a 9-5.

In Guernsey it is so short that one of my relatives used to call it a 'rush minute'!

Usually 5-6 in many places I've known.

No, shops don't close at 4, but most only run a skeleton staff for the first and last hours. Few retail contracts are 37.5 hours now. And many local govt workers get flexi time, so starting early, short lunch break, finish early seems to be a standard pattern in both big councils in our city.

To which I would say: do you not know anyone who works in a school, a shop, local govt, a hospital (nurse handover in our hospital is 2pm), fabrication/engineering (usually 7am start, 3/4pm finish)?

Well, I know plenty of people who work in schools, but they don't get home for 5! Others - no I don't think so. Actually - a midwife - but her shifts are all over the place so I never think of that as a 9-4 type job, which is what I was thinking about when I said I didn't know anyone who got home by 4. I would say the vast number of people whose jobs I know anything about are finance/consulting/lawyer types.

In Dublin city it's 4pm to 7pm in the evening

Depends on the area. The worse traffic locally is 4.30-5.30. Train commuters from London start getting home about 5.30 onwards but they aren't adding to the traffic much. On Friday it's 4pm onwards for rush hour as locals seem to leave work early.

Where I work in Surrey it’s between around 3pm and 7pm

I don't know anyone who finishes work that early!

Around here, rush hour is between 4.30-6pm.

I work 8 til 4 to avoid the worst of rush hour, but still find myself sitting in traffic, especially in the evening. I'd say 4 til 6.

My mum would say it is 3-7pm and will not leave the house between those hours has
Fwiw my husband and I both work in construction and are both home before 5

Of the people I know I am in the minority who finishes work at 4 and is back home by 4:10. Either they finish at 4 but have a long commute or finish at 5/6 and have a short commute

DH finishes at 6ish (often later) and has a 2 hour commute!

5-6 here. I dont finish till 11:00pm 🙈

About 4.45 - 5.45 but also 2.45 - 3.30 when the schools are finishing.

5 to 6 in our town and the local city. Motorway nearby I'd say 4.30 to 6.30pm

Om a sahm currently and I try not to leave the house between 5 and 6 if I can help it!

16:30- 18:30 ish.

West Midlands city.