Welcome to My Traffic Shortcuts, the world's largest and most popular website of auto TRAFFIC SHORTCUTS!

Every one of us who drives in car traffic knows that saving a few minutes or more each day can do wonders for our state of mind.
At My Traffic Shortcuts, we collect and share automobile traffic shortcuts previously only used and known by a few people such as
emergency medical drivers (ambulance, fire, police) or private courier and messenger drivers. We believe that sharing traffic shortcuts
is a great way to help all of us! Just click on your city for local traffic shortcuts. If you have a traffic shortcut you'd like to share, please
send us an email and we'll add it to the site. And if you're in a city not listed, all the better. We love adding to our site. Currently we
offer traffic shortcuts for Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Pittsburgh,
Las Vegas, Sharjah to Dubai, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

We live in a car society, and most of us have to drive many miles each day just to get to work. But what a joy it is to find a traffic shortcut
and save a few minutes or more on our commute. We've found that by using shortcuts, sometimes a car driver can shave 5-20 minutes or
more off a commute. Multiply that by five days a week, four weeks a month, twelve months a year...well, you can literally add hours and days
and possibly weeks of quality time to our lives.

Stress is the number one killer of humans in the 20th Century, and driving in bad traffic day after day can take its toll on you.
The less stress we have the safer we drive, our car insurance rates go down, our health improves, and the world seems a little better each day!

A study by Psychologist David Lewis took 125 commuters and compared their blood pressure and heart rate with the blood pressure and
heart rates of police officers and pilots in training exercises. He said that a commuter's stress and anxiety is increased by the lack of control
commuters have over their situation. Being stuck in traffic can leave one feeling not only highly stressed (sometimes with a numb right leg) but
it can also leave the commuter feeling totally powerless, which in and of itself oftentimes causes deep stress. Dr. Lewis said that the difference
between a riot police officer and a pilot with a daily car commuter, is that the police officer and pilot have things they can do to combat the
stress that's being triggered by the situation. Unfortunately, the commuter can do little about the situation, except sit there and get more stressed.

The body's normal way to deal with stress is either "flight or fight" and when sitting in traffic a commuter can not "flee" and a commuter should
definitely not "fight" (tho that's the basis of the majority of instances of road rage!) A study done in 2004 showed that people with long daily
journeys to and from work are systematically worse and report a lower level of well being, than those with a shorter commute.

What can we do to help ourselves if we're stuck in traffic every day? Here are some helpful suggestions:

* Look for, and take shortcuts. Sometimes they're not readily known, but they are out there, and can save you time and stress.

* If your job allows it, telecommute a few days a week, or work outside of peak hours.

* Take a fast walk or jog at the end of the day to burn up excess stress hormones you may have accumulated during the commute.

* Commute with someone you like, and who hopefully makes you laugh!

* Listen to soothing music

* Remind yourself that driving like crazy to save 10 minutes is not worth the minutes it may take off your life! Peace & Safe driving...