Going the opposite way from the afternoon rush, he guessed.
During the afternoon rush hour intervals are every 10 minutes in the both directions.
As the afternoon rush began to build at the station yesterday, that assessment seemed on target.
In the afternoon rush, all 116 trains left on or close to schedule.
We're picking our way through the afternoon rush to lessons, or what the teachers call 'the great migration'.
But the afternoon rush was hours away, and he had the time.
He would drive into Manhattan after work, during the afternoon rush, three days a week.
Even the Castro, which he had always loved, seemed dismal to him in the late afternoon rush.
His moves simply weren't enough to avoid the afternoon rush of reporters.
East 62nd Street has been reopened to traffic, at least in the afternoon rush.