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Daily Real Estate News | September 20, 2007
Cities with Traffic That Will Drive You Crazy
You're right: traffic is really as bad as you think.
The nation’s drivers wasted a total of 4.2 billion hours sitting in traffic jams in 2005, according to the Texas Traffic Institute’s urban mobility report released this week.
That’s 38 hours per year per driver – practically an entire work week.
"Things are bad and they're getting worse," says Alan Pisarski, a transportation expert and the author of "Commuting in America."
Here's a list of cities where the institute found the worst traffic jams, along with the number of hours in a year drivers spent stuck behind the wheel:
Large Cities
- Los Angles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, 72 hours
- San Francisco-Oakland, 60
- Washington, DC-VA-MD, 60
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 58
- Houston, 56
- Detroit, 54
- Miami, 50
- Phoenix, 48
- Chicago, 46
- New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT, 46
- Boston, 46
- Seattle, 45
- Philadelphia, NJ-DE_MD, 38
Medium Cities
- San Diego, 57 hours
- San Jose, Calif., 54
- Orlando, Fla., 54
- Denver-Aurora, Colo., 50
- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., 49
- Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., 45
- Baltimore, Md., 44
- Minneapolis, St. Paul, 43
- Indianapolis, Ind, 43
- Sacramento, Calif., 41
- Las Vegas, 39
- San Antonio, Texas., 39
- Portland, Ore., 38
- Columbus, Ohio, 33
- St. Louis, 33
Source: 2007 Urban Mobility Report, Texas Transportation Institute (09/2007)
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