Portland has 19th worst traffic (Seattle is worst, LA #2 according to TomTom report)

Portland Business Journal ^ | December 3, 2009

[Stoat]

Portland has the 19th worst traffic congestion in the country, with 23 percent of the city’s roads having “heavy delays,” according to a report released Wednesday.

Seattle’s road woes are the worst, followed by Los Angeles at No. 2, with 38 percent of its roads having heavy delays, followed by Chicago (37 percent), San Francisco (35 percent) and New York City (31 percent), according to global positioning system (GPS) company TomTom of Concord, Mass.

The company ranked cities as most to least congested according to how fast cars could travel on the street network. Traffic was defined as congested if drivers could travel at only 70 percent or less of the posted speed limit, and an average hour-long commute included 20 minutes or more of significant delays, according to TomTom.

Of the 30 major cities included in the study, Minneapolis had the least-congested streets, with only 17 percent.

[Stoat]

I couldn't find the complete report at the TomTom site

TomTom, portable GPS car navigation systems

but if anyone else can find it, please feel free to post it here...I'm sure that others would be interested in seeing it.

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[C19fan]

Traffic in Portland is part of a deliberate policy to force people onto their light rail network.

[Stoat]

“Seattle has the worst traffic congestion in the nation” ping

[IronJack]

These people have obviously never driven in Minneapolis. Any time of the day or night, traffic on the major freeways crawls. You’re better off taking side streets. Or walking.

[Aria]

I live in the NW hills and can get most anywhere I need to go in 15 minutes. I love it here - but then I don’t have to work in Gresham, or Wilsonville or other too far places.

[Uncle Miltie]

Good thing I left.

[NavyCanDo]

Between the Mexican border and the Canadian border the narrowest area of I5 is right smack in the middle of Seattle, where it closes down from about 5 or 6 lanes northbound to only 2 lanes, before it picks up lanes again 1 at a time after the I90 interchange. And with the Convention Center built over the freeway at this choke point, there is no way to widen the freeway.

[sionnsar]

“Seattle has the worst traffic congestion in the nation” ping

Seattle is Number 1!!!

Thanks to Stoat for the ping.

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[votemout]

Worse than LA? Impressive!

[ditchdigger]

I’m moving to Portland from Orange County, CA next month. I have never even visited, but I hear it’s nice. I’m going to be up there next week looking for short term housing. Is Portland as liberal as I keep hearing it is?

[Stoat]

Worse than LA? Impressive!

Indeed.  I'll have you know that it took the hard-Left Socialist micromanagers of Seattle and Washington State governments billions of tax dollars to achieve this impressive ranking position over the endless objections of Conservatives who told them that HOV lanes oftentimes increase congestion rather than decrease it,  building the Convention Center over the freeway is going to doom the entire region to awful traffic for the next hundred years and their 'light rail' projects will dramatically increase surface street congestion as well while failing to take any measurable number of people out of their cars. 

All of this was foretold decades ago and the Seattle Left, in a breathless race 'to be more like New York, Paris and San Francisco' of course derided all objectors as 'neanderthals' or worse.

"sigh"

[goodnesswins]

“Is Portland as liberal as I keep hearing?” ....YES!

[Stoat]

Thank you very much for pinging the Washington list  :-)

 

[sionnsar]

Appearing in my e-mail just now:

WSDOT I-405 Eastside Transportation News

Dec. 3, 2009 - Edition 159

In this issue:

• Major closure planned for northbound I-5 in Seattle starting Saturday
• Expect delays on I-405 as trams head to Vancouver B.C. for Olympic games
• Eastside drivers get ready: SR 520 to be closed 20 times in December
• Bellevue commuters receive faster commute in time for holiday season
• WSDOT report: SR 520 project leads to better travel times for buses and carpools
• SR 520 Legislative Workgroup: Dec. 4 is last day for online comments on west side design, financing
• Keep your company connected with Telework Bellevue

Major closure planned for northbound I-5 in Seattle starting Saturday

If your plans take you through Seattle on northbound I-5 this weekend, expect extra congestion and give yourself some extra time to reach your destination. Crews will close all lanes on northbound I-5 in south Seattle the next two Saturday nights and detour drivers off the freeway where they will travel six miles into SODO via Airport Way before reconnecting with the freeway.  ...

[blasater1960]

Seattle wont be #1 for long! Gregoire (Fraudwoire) is chasing Boeing out the state and a host of other businesses so fast...the roads will clear in no time.

[sionnsar]

LOL, you’re welcome!

[Pavegunner72]

“Is Portland as liberal as I keep hearing?” ....YES!

It’s a blue collar dirty hippy town.

[Stoat]

Appearing in my e-mail just now:

 

[Pavegunner72]

“Seattle wont be #1 for long! Gregoire (Fraudwoire) is chasing Boeing out the state and a host of other businesses so fast...the roads will clear in no time.”

Same with Portland area Nike (HQ in Beaverton Suburb)is the last Forbes 500 company left in PDX.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I can vouch for Portland and Seattle!

And with all that $pending on choo-choo trains, trolleys, and other forms of socialized transportation, NTM bread and circuses, and “smart growth”.

Say it ain't so!