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Spent this morning fighting through traffic trying to get my son to camp and all I heard was that the city of Atlanta moved to 3rd worst traffic city in the United States. Now I am spoiled by working at home on a regular basis, but the report still made me think of all the suffering people do on a daily basis to take care of their loved ones.
Here are some stats I found from the Texas Transportation Institute.
Other highlights from the research illustrate the effects of the nation’s traffic problems.
- The overall cost (based on wasted fuel and lost productivity) reached $87.2 billion in 2007 – more than $750 for every U.S. traveler.
- The total amount of wasted fuel topped 2.8 billion gallons – three weeks’ worth of gas for every traveler.
- The amount of wasted time totaled 4.2 billion hours – nearly one full work week (or vacation week) for every traveler.
and here they are”
Top 10 Worst Traffic Cities in the United States For 2009:
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Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana CA
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New York-Newark NY-NJ-CT
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Chicago IL– IN
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Atlanta GA
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Miami FL
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Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington TX
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Washington DC-VA-MD
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San Francisco-Oakland CA
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Houston TX
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Detroit MI
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6 Comments
Note to self, never live in one of these cities. Portland does pretty well with the traffic management, plus most everything downtown is walkable, bikeable, or you can take the MAX.
Surprised Las Vegas isn’t on the list, maybe top 10-20. Gets pretty bad with all this road construction going on ….. but does help traffic flow quite a bit once finished.
Outstanding, hotlanta came in 4th place. I think we can do better.
“Nothing to be proud of Russ… 50 yards.”
Forgot Albuquerque. Virtually no bridges to cross Rio Grande River and no bypass around city. Almost all interstate trucking must pass through downtown of city. Rush hour traffic as bad as cities 5 – 10 times bigger!
Good posting!
I love my Houston! Despite the terrible traffic and air you can taste on a hot day…