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Location: Watching half my country turn into Gilead
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Originally Posted by kyle19125
Miami-Dade County has a very nice set of highways/expressways for it's population size (2.6 million). It has the Airport Expressway, Dolphin Expressway, Don Shula Expressway, Florida Turnpike, Gratigny Expressway, Hialeah Expressway, I-95, I-75, I-395, John F Kennedy Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway, MacArthur Causeway, Palmetto Expressway, Rickenbacker Causeway, Reagan Turnpike and Snapper Creek Expressway. While shorter runs the expressway conversions from ordinary surface streets has helped considerably in terms providing through options that didn't exist prior.
Now that you mention it, I've never seen bad traffic in the Miami metro.
What? Miami/South Florida (at least 4.5 million people, more if you include Palm Beach County) has some pretty bad traffic and is definitely just below the LA/DC/SF/NYC tier. It's hemmed in by the Everglades and the Atlantic, so it's already congested, but the public transportation options suck. Those causeways you mentioned are nearly always jammed when its beach weather, especially during the winter season. I-95 is either a parking lot or a 3rd World cab driver Death Race. The Florida Turnpike isn't much better and you have to pay for it. I've been in plenty of metros with worse traffic (DC, Seattle, Atlanta, Houston) and Miami is right behind them.
Dallas-Fort Worth. It has a crap ton of highways. It could use less.
I think DFW's gotten better over the last decade or so, but you practically have to pay a toll the second your tires leave your driveway. The number of tollways and managed toll lanes in the Metroplex is asinine.
I think DFW's gotten better over the last decade or so, but you practically have to pay a toll the second your tires leave your driveway. The number of tollways and managed toll lanes in the Metroplex is asinine.
Yeah the toll roads are insane and also very corrupt.
You need to scratch these two off the not so bad list. I have been in both cities at rush hour countless times and it is bad, 25,70&270 in Denver and 5,50&80 in Sacramento are parking lots at rush hour
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