Seattle traffic terrible?...have you been to LA?

[threeputts]

Originally Posted by khyn

drive from waimanalo, hi to downtown honolulu on kalanianaole hwy during morning traffic and tell me LA traffic is horrible, a normal 15 minute drive turns into 2 and a half hours.

Take the Pali instead. Then it's only 2 hours and 20 minutes .

[motor80]

Originally Posted by MetroBob

I moved to Seattle a year ago and have heard all kinds of bemoanings about the traffic jams here. I think Seattleites should take a trip to LA, rent a car, and spend an hour or so sitting on an LA freeway, pondering the difference between a traffic "jam" in the two cities.

Anyone else have a comparison?

THANK YOU! As a former resident of southern California for 17 years, traffic in Seattle can be annoying, but in NO WAY can you compare it to the traffic of L.A. I am so tired of listening to people complain about the traffic in Seattle who say how it's "the worst in the country" or "as bad as LA" or worse than blah blah blah, ad nauseum.

Try a daily commute of 60 miles on the 10 or 405 in LA and then come talk to me about "traffic" in Seattle.

[secret_squirrel]

Originally Posted by kengrubb

I see you've never visited Miami. You take your life in your hands when you get behind the wheel in South Florida, but at least you have the armored protection of a car. On a bike or on foot, you are a much softer, easier target. Friend of mine got his car stolen, and he took up biking for a bit. About a month into riding, he got clipped by a car and stopped biking.

Well yes, I have visited Miami. I was thinking of how easy it would be to bike in such flat terrain.

And I can beat your friend - I was clipped by a car in Seattle the first week of my bike commute. But I didn't stop until I moved south. My new commute passes through a trucking/industrial area and I don't feel safe biking to work here (DH forbids it) so I do get what you are saying about an area's relative safety.

[Peripateticshutin]

Originally Posted by MetroBob

I moved to Seattle a year ago and have heard all kinds of bemoanings about the traffic jams here. I think Seattleites should take a trip to LA, rent a car, and spend an hour or so sitting on an LA freeway, pondering the difference between a traffic "jam" in the two cities.

Anyone else have a comparison?

I've driven in LA and know what you mean.

I wonder how many of the complaints about "Seattle traffic" really refer to I-405 and the East Side commutes -- in my opinion, 405 here much worse than I-5, which usually isn't so bad.