New job..Atrocious traffic..

Recently, I've joined a Java-based IT company situated in the heart of the city, KLCC (Wisma UOA II to be exact). I'm staying somewhere near Ikea currently, and during normal day, it will take about 40 mins for me to get home from work.
So far this week, 40mins no longer cut it. Rain in the late afternoon would ensure that I hv to spend at least 1.5 hours to travel back home. Nonetheless, there's something good that came out of this mind numbing, body torturing daily exercise - I've discovered more ways to get home.
In order to get home faster, I've experimented with 3 different routes to find which one provides the smoothest path. Here's what I found.

1. KLCC -> Jalan Tun Razak -> Lebuhraya Mahameru -> Jalan Duta Exit -> Penchala Link -> Mutiara Damansara Exit
   
   
   1. Normally, this is the fastest way. However, when it rains, never even think of taking this route as Jalan Tun Razak will be massively congested all the way until Bulatan Pahang and after PWTC. To make it worse, the Jalan Duta exit will also suffer congestion due to traffic merging from multiple directions.
2. KLCC -> Jalan Ampang -> Jalan Sultan Ismail -> Dataran Merdeka -> Jalan Duta Exit -> Penchala Link -> Mutiara Damansara
   
   
   1. A friend told me about this route. Turned out, there are a lot of stop and go traffic due to the traffic lights. The routes are consistently congested but it's definitely not as bad as option 1. Plus, the route provides the shortest way to get to the Jalan Duta Exit so in the end you'll end up with more or less the same travel time. I would recommend this route over any other during really bad traffic day due to its consistency.
3. KLCC -> Jalan Yap Kwan Seng -> Kampung Baru -> Jalan Chow Kit -> Exit to The Mall -> Bukit Tunku -> Jalan Duta -> Penchala Link -> Mutiara Damansara Exit
   
   
   1. Heavy jam to get to Kampung baru. Heavy jam in Chow Kit. Fair jam at Bukit Tunku exiting to Jalan Duta. Again, during super-duperly bad traffic day, this can be one of the option. It's definitely faster than option 1 and more or less equal with option 2.

Ok la. Let's hope that today, somehow, traffic will cooperate and I can get home sooner :).