Traffic

Every morning and every night I walk my dogs.  The recently adopted Gigi is a gem but the transition from farm to home wasn't the easiest for her.  Gigi is a border collie/dachshund mix and probably one of the sweetest dogs I've ever met.  To get some of the energy out I take them on walks in my apartment complex.  I understand traffic in the morning, people work all different hours and have appointments in the morning etc., it's the night traffic that makes me wonder.  Tonight I walk my dogs a little later than normal.  It is 10:25 on a Tuesday night and I see not one, two or three cars leaving, but FOUR cars leaving the complex.  It makes me wonder, are they going to work?  Are they going out?  To a significant other's house?  Late night grocery shopping?  What in the world are these people doing at 10:25 on a Tuesday?  If you know me I often make the same rant about traffic.  I have never understood traffic and probably never will.  I wish I could go on one of those traffic helicopters to figure it out.  I completely understand why the right lane has traffic with people exiting and running into lights, but why is the fast lane stopped as well?  Where is the source of all this madness?  I wish I had the answer.  There are probably thousands of studies being conducted every day, why can't someone conduct a study on why there is traffic and where people are going.  Usually as I sit in traffic on what I thought would be the perfect time to leave I think about getting out of the car, tapping on someone's window, and asking them what they are doing and where they are going.  Someone, for the love of pete, please conduct a study for me!  I wish Austin had a good transportation system like the subway, I would ride that to work every day as long as it ran at a decent hour.  Oh people in traffic, where are you going?  I guess the answer is nowhere.