Atlanta not in top 10 for worst traffic in US. Boston is #1.... (ranking, states)

[DavePa]

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

Less topography issues. . . like a Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh is so hilly and has so many rivers, there are lots of topography issues. I am surprised Denver isn't on the list. Lots of idiots driving.

Of course it is. Maybe my wording gave the opposite of my point intended? Why do you think I mentioned Pittsburgh and topography? Because its flat and no barriers as it made the list of worst traffic cities too?

Sorry if my wording came out the opposite of my intent. No one would think Pittsburgh of all cities to mention ..... is expressway friendly without barriers. I certainly did not mean that in mentioning it.

[Turnerbro]

Originally Posted by bu2

Atlanta is "world class" with traffic. There are some surveys that have Atlanta top 10 in the world.

With Atlanta, however, there are some areas where the traffic isn't that bad. 285W, I20W and I85S aren't bad. I75 N inside 285 isn't awful. But to the north and northeast, Atlanta traffic is undoubtedly world class.

One thing about the reports based on "delays." LA would rate higher, but typical driving non rush hour is a delay, so while peak is horrendous, non-peak is awful. Atlanta has the same issue.

No way Atlanta is top 10 in the world. Try driving in China or India during rush hour.

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

I've driven in every city you've listed here. You may not be wrong actually.

Gonna correct myself. I think Atlanta is worse than Seattle.

[masssachoicetts]

I cant wait till Boston outprices itself, doesnt improve the T and then whines why development hit a hault. Oh and keeps this traffic congestion.... weak.

[NC2ATL60]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

I cant wait till Boston outprices itself, doesnt improve the T and then whines why development hit a hault. Oh and keeps this traffic congestion.... weak.

Is that what it's currently doing?

[Arcenal813]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

No way Atlanta is top 10 in the world. Try driving in China or India during rush hour.

Key difference is that in those countries, you don't really HAVE to drive. There are plenty of alternatives. Here, we are quite backwards when it comes to that.

[Huntsville_secede]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

I would not say that leadership is lacking in Atlanta and Georgia on the transportation issue.

I would say that metro Atlanta's and Georgia's political leaders have had to adjust and reflect the positions on transportation that their constituents have often made abundantly clear, particularly on the issue of roadway expansion.

Metro Atlanta and North Georgia voters just do not seem to have much of an appetite for the type of large-scale road expansion that voters and residents may be significantly more accepting of in other major Sun Belt jurisdictions like Texas, Florida, California and North Carolina.

A major political figure like the late former Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator Zell Miller found out the complicated attitude that Georgia voters have towards road construction early on in his political career as a state legislator representing the people of his very rural house district in the North Georgia Mountains.

Miller tried early on to use road construction projects as favors to his rural legislative district to advance his career in Georgia politics, but found that most of the people in his deeply culturally conservative isolated very rural district either did not care and/or even were more favorable to keeping many local roads unpaved.

Otherwise, metro Atlanta and North Georgia voters will accept major transportation improvements... If said political leaders sell those needed and/or desired transportation improvements to voters in ways that are most digestible to a transit and superhighway-averse metro Atlanta and North Georgia voting public.

Yet they constantly complain about how bad traffic is yet don't that they are the main reason for all the problems in the area with an unwillingness to support any kind of infrastructure improvements.

[As Above So Below...]

Any traffic list that doesn’t place LA as worst is faulty.

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by NC2ATL60

Is that what it's currently doing?

They are improving the T drastically now... but failing to include it in the newly developing areas of Boston, and future areas of Boston to develop/grow (Seaport, Dudley, Allston, Southie, Dot)

[citylover94]

All of those neighborhoods have transit service. Out of those the worst off are Allston, Southie and the Dudley Square area in Roxbury and those areas have buses just no trains except on the edges of the neighborhood that have bus connections to the nearby train service. It isn't an ideal situation, but it isn't terrible. The Seaport only looks bad if you forget the entire neighborhood is within 1 mile of South Station and the majority of the development is within just over 1/2 mile or a 15 minute walk.