The big race home

In the UK most people work at least 37 hours per week, sometimes more. The most common office hours are 8.30 or 9 in the morning until 5 or 5.30 in the evening.

If you were to look out on to the roads in the early evening at about 5pm you currently see a huge number of cars on the road. A few weeks ago it would have been less. In a few weeks time it will also be less.

Why should the roads be so busy during mid March? Well at the moment (in Solihull) the sun sets at about 5.30pm and it is dark by 6pm.

Generally English people don’t like to commute in the dark and prefer to travel home in the light if they are able to do so. We are now just at the point where most people can get home in the light but only if they leave work on time and go home immediately. Only if they engage in the big race home – to be home before the sun has set!