Top 10 Cities With The Worst Traffic

April 15th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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Hate traffic? If so these are the cities you probably want to avoid. Washington D.C. leads the list as huge levels of government hiring have choked the infrastructure and created perpetual bottlenecks on most of the highways. Coming in second is Atlanta, Georgia. When I moved here in 1991 everything was 20 minutes away. The newly built and refurbished interstate system was humming and traffic problems were fairly rare. But since adding over a million new residents in the past decade traffic is one of the worst problems the region faces.

Here are all 10 of the worst cities for traffic as put together by Forbes Magazine.

Top 10 Cities With The Worst Traffic:

1. Washington D.C.
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Houston, TX
6. New York, NY
7. Riverside – San Bernardino, CA
8. Chicago, IL
9. Dallas, TX
10. Boston, MA.

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There Are 13 Responses So Far. »

1. 

   Comment by Brian Block on 15 April 2008:

   I knew our traffic was bad here in the D.C. metro area, but had no idea it was the worst in the nation, beating out even Los Angeles!
2. 

   Comment by Maureen M. on 15 April 2008:

   Boston being so low surprises me… Atlanta being so high surprises me.
3. 

   Comment by Tom on 15 April 2008:

   Maureen

   Atlanta has no natural boundaries, sort of like Columbus, but we just keep growing like crazy… It is nuts these days trying to get around the city even with our 8-10 lane wide highways.
4. 

   Comment by dean on 15 April 2008:

   To all of those metro area dwellers who want traffic to thin out just do what we Californians do when frustration strikes-ignore it.

   Jump on your blackberry, pull out the laptop, wrestle with your morning NY Times and get some work done.

   I have nothing but free time.

5. Pingback by Realtor’s Sales Nightmare #1: Top 10 Cities With The Worst Traffic « DeansGuide on 16 April 2008:

   [...] hour, sales, San Francisco, Traffic, Washington DC Commute? What commute? A recent list of the “Top 10 Cities With The Worst Traffic” conditions were presented over at Tom’s therealestatebloggers.com with some surprising [...]
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   Comment by Phyllis Harb on 19 April 2008:

   Los Angeles made the list, but what about Seattle? I think their traffic is worse than LA’s
7. 

   Comment by intern on 5 June 2008:

   hmmm…wondering where seattle is…
8. 

   Comment by Ryan on 10 January 2009:

   maybe the study is per capita. NY less than San Francisco? Go figure. I guess BART is not as useful
9. 

   Comment by hoogaboogahooga on 18 March 2009:

   i thought st.louis was in there
10. 

    Comment by Flower Girl Mom on 6 May 2009:

    I’m really surprised Los Angeles would come after DC and Atlanta. Los Angeles traffic is just killing me every day…
11. 

    Comment by Timothy R Miles on 4 August 2009:

    I lived in Washington,dc and I lived in Orlando, Florida… and
    what Washington needs is a turnpike coming into the beltway both
    north and south, as in Orlando, florida. there is only one way
    into washington area, and that is interstate I95 and it gets bottle
    neck as you get closer to the washington area.

12. Pingback by WMATA: Gov 2.0 Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | gov 2.0 on 17 September 2009:

    [...] [also note that DC and LA are the two cities that constantly vie for the worst automobile traffic in North America.] [...]
13. 

    Comment by Kevin Flores on 18 March 2010:

    FINALLY, someone agrees with me about the constant traffic problems in the DC metro area. The main problem…archaic freeways and routes! I have tried to explain to my heart’s content the blindness that comes from local commuters. I have driven in LA for over 25 years and in DC for the last 4 years. LA has its own problems, but at least it has alternate choices (freeways/main streets). DC doesn’t have that in my opinion. The “routes” are as clogged down as the freeways both in Maryland and Virginia. The HOV system is violated daily over and over again. My supervisor, who has lived in the area all his life refers to the internet to get his results on who has the worst traffic. Until he or anyone has lived in both places for a substancial amount of time, they don’t have a leg to stand on. DC is the worst!

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