Top 10 Cities With The Worst Traffic

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Downtown-atlanta-trafficHate 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 10 Responses So Far. »

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

  3. 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. 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. [...] 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 [...]

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

  7. hmmm…wondering where seattle is…

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

  9. i thought st.louis was in there

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

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