Sorry, no disrespect intended, but It is not just high season causing this, unless something has changed in the last three years.

We have been coming to the island for over 10 years, and always at exactly the same time (mid January to mid-February). I have never seen so many traffic issues as this year. No problem was ever solved by people just brushing it off by saying things like, "oh, it's just high season", as if that somehow makes it acceptable. It wasn't even a big cruise ship day, so the cruise ships can't be blamed either. No one seems to care or take any responsibility.

Like everything else on the island, the island can ignore the issues that affect visitors at its peril. As much as I love St Maarten, we all have other choices.