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Across 747 recreational lockages the median transit was 28 minutes — 25 with nothing commercial in the way, 45 when a commercial vessel takes your cycle.
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What this is

Commercial traffic is not the largest single influence on how long you wait — but it is the only one above chance that you can see coming. Chamber side and cycle position both matter in the archive and neither is visible from a boat. Commercial is visible: it broadcasts identity, position and hull size on AIS, and the Corps publishes every lockage afterwards.

So the forecast starts there. If nothing commercial is in your way you are in the clear majority of lockages that run about 25 minutes — a majority that is about 62% at midday and 98% in the evening, and the verdict above says which. If something is, you are in the 18% that run about 45. Recreational traffic is not forecast directly: it is too irregular to predict and the feed never counts it.