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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Scarface713
Except Detroit...that one is a surprise.
I just spent the weekend there visiting family in suburban Detroit and then drove around and saw the city. In some parts there's no traffic at all, but early in the morning it gets nasty bad, not like Houston bad, but it's pretty bad. Some highways more than others are worse off.
It's a 50/50 city, it can have bad traffic/or it can have no traffic...
I don't know how it is in some of the other cities on the list, but what makes DC so bad is that there are massive delays (day or night) that go on for several miles, but then I rarely ever see a reason as to the delay. The amount of volume is so bad around DC that you get the slinky effect (cars taking off, then slamming on the breaks) with no major interchanges and no accidents....this makes it terribly unpredictable. I've considered getting out of my car and abandoning it at times :-)
This is 100% dated (or just blatantly wrong since its undated).
The Source used by Weather.com is the Texas Transportation Institute of which I have linked multiple times the 2009 Mobility Report and the findings are as of 2009:
Total Hours Wasted Per Car -
1 Los Angeles
2 Washington
3 Atlanta
4 Houston
5 San Francisco
6 (tie) Dallas
6 (tie) San Jose
6 (tie) Orlando
9 (tie) Detroit
9 (tie) San Diego
11 (tie) Miami
11 (tie) Tampa Bay
Total Hours Wasted Combining All Cars -
1 Los Angeles
2 New York
3 Chicago
4 Atlanta
5 Miami
6 Dallas
7 Washington
8 San Francisco
9 Houston
10 Detroit
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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I really have to get this out of my system;
But the worst is when you're doing a cross country trip, like I am doing/did this past weekend. Traffic was a good flow from Chicago to Detroit until I got to near Kalamazoo, then there was a hold up, apparently construction was going on one lane but it took longer because there was some really old lady driving 20 miles under the speed limit. Darnnn those old drivers... so much time gone to waste, take Amtrack or something if you're going to hold everyone else up....
I'm sorry, I just had to get that out.
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