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By this, I mean a city that most of the city can be accessed with interstates/freeways/tollways and those expressways move quickly with few backups. Also, cities where surface streets move quickly and they utilize newer traffic controls such as continuous flow intersections, superstreets, & diverging diamond intersections. A good measure would be a city where google maps never has "red" areas even during rush hour.
I'm mainly looking for cities with metros larger than 250K (i.e. a small town in Montana may not have traffic but I'm not concerned with that, I'm concerned with areas that have superior traffic engineering).
It's funny...I was snooping in a few Texas threads earlier today (since I am visiting the state right now), and I notice some people that gave pluses to living in a certain city based on their highways. Not sure how much of a Texan thing this is, or just a coincidence/accidental pattern.
St. Louis. I-55 bisects the metro area north to south, I-70 covers North City and North County, I-64 bisects the metro area east west, I-44 serves South City and South County, I-170 bisects the Missouri side north to south, I-270 and I-255 encircle the metro area on their outer rims.
I think Richmond, Virginia has quite an abundance of freeways, relative to its size as a metro of only 1 million people. Not sure about the design features the OP mentioned.
St. Louis. I-55 bisects the metro area north to south, I-70 covers North City and North County, I-64 bisects the metro area east west, I-44 serves South City and South County, I-170 bisects the Missouri side north to south, I-270 and I-255 encircle the metro area on their outer rims.
Jacksonville should rank near the top. I consider three factors: 1) coverage 2) maintenance 3) congestion
Factors #1 and #2 are generally very strong in the south as most of the cities were built with sprawl catering to cars/highways, a majority of taxes/tolls going to maintenance of roads instead of transit, and milder weather. Jax is in that sweet spot where its smaller size, however, allows for far less congestion than cities like Miami, Atlanta or Houston. Some people complain about traffic here but they really have no idea...you can get almost anywhere in this very sprawling city pretty quickly.
Richmond Va. Way over-highwayed for the population. Probably because it's the state capitol. No traffic
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