Posted on 01/15/2014 9:46:02 AM PST by Vigilanteman
Lost Angeles is the worst traffic city in America. 'Carmaggedon' is no joke. Drivers in the worst traffic city wasted an average of 63.3 hours in traffic over the last year. Congrats to Los Angeles, although worst traffic city might not be the most coveted of titles.
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Seattle has 2 “mega projects” underway at a total cost exceeding $6 Billion. Seattle’s version of the Big Dig is currently stalled because of an old well pipe casing and is expected to chew up $100 million contingency faster than it’s been chewing through the dirt and the 520 floating bridge project just issued another $170 million change order on top of the $200 million change order because of poor design of the pontoons.
Neither of these two projects are designed to alleviate any congestion.
I don’t know. I couldn’t do it; not for anything. But many millions do, all over the world. I prefer the country and open spaces.
Personally, I’d rank Honolulu worse than LA. At least in LA, there are options to exit and take surface streets. In Honolulu during rush hour, you really can’t escape it.
From this article:
Wow, I’ve just happened to have lived (live) in 3 of the top 10 worst! In my experience, LA is far worse than San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. It’s a tight race though..
Not even sure why I’m commenting on this! So not important in the scheme of things currently :)
That is so not right. On so many levels. Just creepy.
What could possibly go wrong?
The press release from the originating organization.
I was looking for a list of the 50 cities. I don’t want to give Weather.com 50 page clicks.
http://www.inrix.com/pressrelease.asp?ID=156
Is that real? If so, where?
By analyzing traffic in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas in 2011, the Top 10 Worst U.S. Traffic Cities1 are:
1. Honolulu: Drivers waste 58 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Tuesday from 5:15 – 5:30pm
2. Los Angeles: Drivers waste 56 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:45 – 6:00pm
3. San Francisco: Drivers waste 48 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:45 – 6:00pm
4. New York: Drivers waste 57 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Friday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
5. Bridgeport, CT: Drivers waste 42 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Friday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
6. Washington, D.C.: Drivers waste 45 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:45 – 6:00pm
7. Seattle: Drivers waste 33 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
8. Austin: Drivers waste 30 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
9. Boston: Drivers waste 35 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
10. Chicago: Drivers waste 36 hours in traffic2; Worst Hour = Thursday from 5:30 – 5:45pm
Austin traffic is fine as long as you avoid rush hour, major concerts and Longhorn games. Houston seemed worse to me.
Phoenix traffic is a breeze unless there is an accident. I can drive Hiways 10 to 143 to 202 to 51 to 101 from Tempe to Cave Creek in 40 minutes (35 miles) at 6:00PM. I do it twice a week. However having migrated from the bay area some years ago ... ANY traffic would be better than San Jose to Livermore (or back) over Sunol grade during traffic hours
Junction of the Santa Monica and Golden State Freeways?
Los Angeles County is 4,083 square miles.
Most Pittsburghers know better than to accept a job that lies on the other side of a bridge and/or tunnel.
LA is not a big place, the city is a typical larger city.
Unfortunately people think southern California is all LA, it is not. That was my primary point, the picture in the article isn’t even LA, its part of the IE.
#10 Washington D.C. drivers also waste 40.5 hours per year.
Who's doing the calculations for this list?
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