Which is why I stay out of cities as much as possible, although I do go to Carson City and Reno every few months.
The one thing I enjoy more than anything in retirement, is missing the PM commute. My 45 minute 35 mile commute in 1990 when we moved to Lago, ended up as 1 hour and 15 or 20 minutes in 2011. The 1990 trip included many traffic lights on 183, not a freeway as it is now.
You’re lucky to get in and out of Bridgeport with a car if its the same as I remember it.
Even after the nation’s taxpayers gifted them with a the finest subway money can buy DC is still #9. So much for the claim that mass transit eases traffic.
Sorry but Washington D.C. is the worst, simply because Virginia has the worst and most incompetent drivers by far in the country, if not the world.
I would love to protest Marxist Maryland and not spend any money there, but when I am heading down south I have to stop in Maryland to get gas because I get so infuriated by all the @$$¶¤|£ Virginia drivers who drive under the speed limit in the left lane I refuse to spend money in that state.
You people in Virginia should be embarrassed and ashamed by how bad and pathetic you drive.
I can’t believe Houston didn’t make the list.
If you build it, they will come. It is virtually impossible to build roads fast enough to ever meaningfully improve commute times for very long. Newer, faster highways attract commuters... And convinces them they can move farther out and have an acceptable commute. More and more people do this until traffic is just as lousy as it was before.
People plan their commute based on the -time- it takes, not the distance. Most people have an upper limit of about an hour, after which it starts becoming unacceptable. Likewise most people prefer and can live with a half hour commute without too much discomfort. Commute times, property values, traffic density, and housing density are all in constant flux, expanding and contracting in succession. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong or indifferent. It just is.
The funny thing is that overall... The one thing that never really changes is commute time. Notice in the above data that in all those cities the average time is still always about 30 minutes anyway, regardless.
I just knew Washington DC would be *up there*
Ummm... And where’s Houston in all of this?
3 of 10 are California cities... Hmmm....
Reason number 23 why I love living out in the country.
Thank Obama for creating less traffic jams due to the horrible economy. There are less people working to clog up the roads during drive times. And less traffic in general because we don’t have the money to drive.
chicago and atlanta beat out bridgeport.
Living out here on the left coast, north of Gay Frisco and not that far from San Jose, we can be impacted by both.
I had to laugh at the commute time of Gay Frisco drivers, Average commute time: 29.2 minutestied for 10th highest).
That obviously deals only with Gay Frisco drivers. You can spend more time than that trying to get across the Bay Bridge or Golden Gate Bridge. You need a snack, porta potty and a nap to get from San Jose to Gay Frisco during commute time.
When I turned fifty, I warned all relatives if they intended to visit us an flew into SFO or San Jose, they were responsible for getting from the airport to wino country and back.
If their arrival didn’t interfere with work, I would pick them up at the Sac airport and take them back unless they landed or took off during rush hours. If they did, they were responsible for getting here and returning to the airport.
Once our guests rented a car and drove from SFO or San Jose to here, they understood why I was so firm. The same happened to those landing or taking off at Sac.
20+ years later, that traffic is worse.
We love the beaches in the Avila Beach area, and while the mileage is about 240 miles each way, the trip each way has us fighting the Gay Frisco Traffic and San Jose traffic. A trip that should take about 4 hours balloons turns into a 6-7+ hour trip. Many of those who try to make up the time on 101 south after San Jose get hammered with speeding tickets.