Here Are The 10 Most Congested Cities In America
If you drive to work every day, there’s a very good chance you spend a lot of your time crawling along in traffic. With the world’s population booming and our road networks barely evolving to keep up, it’s no surprise to learn that we’re spending more and more time sat in traffic. That’s the finding of the latest Urban Mobility Scorecard, created by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which analyses the trips we take by car to track how our driving behaviours are changing.
Scanning through the report makes for depressing reading. Between 2013 and 2014, 95 of the 100 largest urban areas in America saw increased traffic congestion, with Americans travelling an extra 6.9 billion hours because of heavy traffic. When compared to taking their commutes in light traffic, congestion meant they also wasted an average of 19 extra gallons of fuel each and, in the largest cities, spent an average of 63 extra hours behind the wheel each year.
The evening rush hour around 6pm is typically more congested than the morning rush hour, with 1am to 6am being the best time to travel. Traffic was unsurprisingly much lighter at weekends, with Friday being the most congested day to travel.
So which American cities are guilty of subjecting their inhabitants to the most severe congestion? Here are the worst culprits:
- Washington DC - 82 extra hours in traffic in 2014
- Los Angeles - 80 extra hours
- San Francisco - 78 extra hours
- New York City - 74 extra hours
- San Jose - 67 hours
- Boston - 64 extra hours
- Seattle - 63 extra hours
- Chicago - 61 extra hours
- Houston - 61 extra hours
- Riverside-San Bernadino - 59 extra hours
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I was pretty surprised to not see Toronto on the list, but then I realized OP is an Idiot who doesn’t know the different between the United States of America and America.
I wonder if there’s a Canadian group that does the same thing, im curious what Calgary would be.
Is that in extra hours per year? If so that’s not to terrible. Here in Austin Tx, most commutes going back and forth from the north part of the city, to downtown/central take around 30 min in the middle of rush hour traffic (which actually lasts close to 2 hours). Depending on your commute, and whether or not you take toll roads, it could take you a full hour to get home, or to work.
I really want to know who does these studies. It’s easy to spend more than 100 hours in traffic here in Austin, and some of those cities have it even worse. So if DC is 82 extra hours in traffic, that’s .3 hours a day, or 20 minutes a day. DC is much larger than Austin, and the commute is much longer for many people. So until I figure out how these studies figure out these times, I’m going to go with that they are made up by someone who doesn’t actually spend a lot of time in traffic.
You have no idea what Istanbul is like. All the attention is always on USA, not a damn given for the rest of the world. India, China, Brasil have really terrible traffic compared to USA. Istanbul on the other hand is far more screwed up then these top 10 list.
America is a continent not a country! Geez is this to hard to understand for 322 million Idiots??
I wonder what the chart would’ve been if it was for EU.
You mean united states because america is a continent
Boston traffic doesn’t just stay in boston. I’m a half hour south of Boston and 95 south is a mess during rush hour from Rhode Islanders trying to get home as slowly as possible because let’s be honest- no one actually wants to go to Rhode Island.
I’m definitely not surprised Houston made it, I-45 is AWFUL!
San Bernadino traffic is no problem for BXD. CHEAHH
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