Austin ranks 4th in U.S. most congested roads (Bridgeport: 2013, commute)

[Danbo1957]

One media outlet's opinion, but the reviewers must have driven on 360 at 4:45pm on a Friday...

Here’s INRIX’s 2013 list of the 10 U.S. cities having the most congested roads:

1. Los Angeles, Calif.
2. Honolulu, Hawaii
3. San Francisco, Calif.
4. Austin, Texas
5. New York, N.Y.
5. Bridgeport, Conn.
6. San Jose, Calif.
7. Seattle, Wash.
8. Washington, D.C.
9. Boston, Mass.

The world's most traffic-congested cities - Yahoo! Autos

Please, please, build 45 Southwest before 2020.

[Austin97]

Originally Posted by Danbo1957

One media outlet's opinion, but the reviewers must have driven on 360 at 4:45pm on a Friday...

Here’s INRIX’s 2013 list of the 10 U.S. cities having the most congested roads:

1. Los Angeles, Calif.
2. Honolulu, Hawaii
3. San Francisco, Calif.
4. Austin, Texas
5. New York, N.Y.
5. Bridgeport, Conn.
6. San Jose, Calif.
7. Seattle, Wash.
8. Washington, D.C.
9. Boston, Mass.

The world's most traffic-congested cities - Yahoo! Autos

Please, please, build 45 Southwest before 2020.

They have two measures, one is congestion the other is wait time in traffic. Congestion is measured as the delta between free flowing traffic and the slowdowns. If a place is always congested and so traffic never goes fast, then the delta will actually not be high so paradoxically the congestion will be lower.

wait time in traffic puts us lower

1. Los Angeles (59 hours)
2. Honolulu (50 hours)
3. San Francisco (49 hours)
4. Austin (38 hours)
5. New York (50 hours)
6. Bridgeport (39 hours)
7. San Jose (31 hours)
8. Seattle (35 hours)
9. Washington, D.C. (41 hours)
10. Boston (31 hours)

[sxrckr]

There are different ways to measure worst traffic. But still, this is not good and should be a wake-up call for us.

[owlman]

Only 38 hours/yr? Say 250 workdays/yr, that comes out to 9 minutes per day. So for example your commute that could take 20 minutes on empty roads takes 25 minutes with traffic? That doesn't seem so bad.