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Laura Rizzo has one of the worst commutes in Metro Vancouver — and she doesn’t even live that far from the office.

The marketing executive frequently gets stuck on Annacis Island, which is surrounded by highways and bridges on the south arm of the Fraser River between Richmond, Surrey and Delta.

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“Everybody realizes it’s really hard sitting in those lineups. Everybody in the Lower Mainland has traffic fatigue,” says Rizzo.

If there is so much as a fender-bender anywhere in the system, she can say goodbye to supper and the kids because what should be a 10-minute drive home to Surrey becomes an hour-long crawl.

“You get home later. You’re crankier. You have to get dinner on the table. When the kids were younger, I can remember panicking and thinking I wasn’t going to get to daycare before it closed,” she says.

B.C. drivers agree that congestion has increased: Almost three-quarters of respondents to BCAA’s 2016 survey said traffic is getting worse in Vancouver.