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Originally Posted by Mezter
LA and Houston KILL Chicago. Try sitting in traffic for 2 hours trying to get across town when it should really only take 30 minutes.
You know professional analysts do this research every year and Chicago is almost always top 2 or 3, so this statement can't be true all of the time. I actually want to say Chicago was #1 from the latest poll that demonstrated total hours wasted in traffic...If I can find the data I'll provide the link.
You know professional analysts do this research every year and Chicago is almost always top 2 or 3, so this statement can't be true all of the time. I actually want to say Chicago was #1 from the latest poll that demonstrated total hours wasted in traffic...If I can find the data I'll provide the link.
These things change every year as systems change, new things get implemented and stuff, but yes in the lastest ranking I saw Chicago owned it with 70 hours spent annually in delays and $1733 bucks per driver was incurred due to these delays.
LA was two spots below Chicago with 7 less hrs spent in delays.
Houston was behind LA with 58hrs delay. DC was the second place winner with 68 hrs of delay a year.
San Francisco, Boston, DFW, Seattle, ATL and NY rounded out the list, all with delay hrs in the 40's.
The one saving grace in Chicago is that while the traffic sucks, there's a large population that doesn't even have to deal with it, over 1 million rides a day on the trains. I can't imagine those people in the burbs if they actually had to drive downtown instead of Metra. The people really screwed are those with reverse commutes who don't work by train stations in the suburbs, and those people who live in the suburbs and then work in another suburb far away.
Of course it's funny cause when you google "most congested cities", all the lists are in totally different orders, but the top 10 normally contain the same cities. The only big factor that changes it up a lot is if they take into account how many people use public transit and don't have to spend any time in traffic as opposed to just looking at those who drive.
I couldn't imagine driving downtown from the suburbs every single day in any of those listed cities. How do people deal with that everyday? Ugh. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do, but wow.
Last Thursday, I drove from Southern Maryland to Downtown DC in the morning and back in the afternoon... The distance is a little over 20 miles each way... That day, I spent almost 5 hours driving!!!!!!!! 2+ hours in the morning, 2+ in the afternoon... And it was all only over a light sprinkle.
Washington DC takes the cake for traffic!!!! Thursday reminded me why I moved into the city... BECAUSE I HATE DRIVING! Nothing beats taking the Metro!
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