It was dark now, and most of the Friday night, escaping for the weekend traffic had died down.
Many places farther downtown are only good five days a week because they don't get a lot of weekend traffic.
Sadly many businesses struggle to survive with low custom and poor weekend traffic.
This July, she predicted, the weekend traffic will be even more frantic than it is now.
"This year, during an average weekday, we had 10,750 cars, and our weekend traffic has been up 45 percent every week."
Three additional coach units were added for weekend traffic.
Patiently she chugged along with the stream of weekend traffic.
The police are also warning that weekend traffic may have to be rerouted because of demonstrations at foreign missions.
Well, ought to be the usual weekend traffic from Washington.
But the trip can be much longer that way, as can driving to the park in weekend traffic.