Atlanta doesn't even break Top 10 Most Traffic Conjested Cities (Boston: 2013, college)

[Nanosolar]

Pathetic that San Francsico, Seattle, Boston, etc beat us out... I thought we were the Mecca of traffic congestion and these other cities were filled with mass transit options. Just shows you that perception is reality, people keep saying Atlanta traffic is the worst, so it is!

INRIX Traffic Scorecard Reports U.S. Congestion on the Rise in 2013 Following Two Years of Double-Digit Declines

[testa50]

Haha I made almost the exact same thread at the exact same time.

[noah]

Not surprised at all. Seattle is a great city but they are just getting started now on adding light rail (will never have heavy rail), we have a lot more then people realize. What Seattle does have is great bus service that appears to be non existence in most areas of the metro.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by noah

Not surprised at all. Seattle is a great city but they are just getting started now on adding light rail (will never have heavy rail), we have a lot more then people realize. What Seattle does have is great bus service that appears to be non existence in most areas of the metro.

Atlanta stole their HRT funding.

[BeyondInfinity]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Atlanta stole their HRT funding.

Atlanta didn't steal anything. The citizens of Seattle did not want HRT at the time so we were next in line (Medellín: Rail Rapid Transit (Metro) Overview - Light Rail Now)

"In February 1968, the effort to implement a modern rail transit system began with a Seattle ballot measure called Forward Thrust, proposing $385 million in bonds to help fund a 47-mile, $1.15 billion rail transit system. This measure unfortunately failed, with 50.8% of the vote (60% was needed to pass). In May 1970, voters again defeated (with only 46% approval) a resubmitted package, which included $440 million in bonds for a regional transit system with 500 miles of bus routes and 49 miles of rail. Senator Warren G. Magnuson had secured nearly $900 million in federal funding to cover three-fourths of the system's total cost of $1.32 billion. Because the bond measure did not pass, the federal funding earmarked for King County was allocated to Atlanta's MARTA system instead. Voters approved an all-bus metro transit system in September 1972." [HistoryLink.org, 19 Sept. 2002]

[LovelySummer]

See LA at number 1. This is exactly what I was saying in another thread. LA traffic is 10 times worse than Atlanta traffic. There is no let-up at 6pm, there is even traffic at 3am. Atlanta has nothing more than a normal rush hour.

I think that maybe people who think Atlanta has the worst traffic have never lived in other major cities. It is by far, not anywhere near the worst, or even really bad, if you have experienced traffic in other places.

Originally Posted by Nanosolar

Pathetic that San Francsico, Seattle, Boston, etc beat us out... I thought we were the Mecca of traffic congestion and these other cities were filled with mass transit options. Just shows you that perception is reality, people keep saying Atlanta traffic is the worst, so it is!

INRIX Traffic Scorecard Reports U.S. Congestion on the Rise in 2013 Following Two Years of Double-Digit Declines

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by BeyondInfinity

Atlanta didn't steal anything. The citizens of Seattle did not want HRT at the time so we were next in line (Medellín: Rail Rapid Transit (Metro) Overview - Light Rail Now)

"In February 1968, the effort to implement a modern rail transit system began with a Seattle ballot measure called Forward Thrust, proposing $385 million in bonds to help fund a 47-mile, $1.15 billion rail transit system. This measure unfortunately failed, with 50.8% of the vote (60% was needed to pass). In May 1970, voters again defeated (with only 46% approval) a resubmitted package, which included $440 million in bonds for a regional transit system with 500 miles of bus routes and 49 miles of rail. Senator Warren G. Magnuson had secured nearly $900 million in federal funding to cover three-fourths of the system's total cost of $1.32 billion. Because the bond measure did not pass, the federal funding earmarked for King County was allocated to Atlanta's MARTA system instead. Voters approved an all-bus metro transit system in September 1972." [HistoryLink.org, 19 Sept. 2002]

Well of course, but we did get the federal funding meant for Seattle and Atlanta has the best HRT system in any SunBelt state.

[ATLfromJAX]

Originally Posted by LovelySummer

See LA at number 1. This is exactly what I was saying in another thread. LA traffic is 10 times worse than Atlanta traffic. There is no let-up at 6pm, there is even traffic at 3am. Atlanta has nothing more than a normal rush hour.

I think that maybe people who think Atlanta has the worst traffic have never lived in other major cities. It is by far, not anywhere near the worst, or even really bad, if you have experienced traffic in other places.

LovelySummer is dead on correct. I lived in California after college and LA and SF Bay Area traffic is WAY worse than Atlanta's. Not even close. And Seattle, DC, and Chicago is up there. Even Austin, TX has it's growing pains now with traffic.

Everyone I heard complain about Atlanta's traffic and commutes never lived in a major city other than Atlanta. An hour+ commute in LA was common.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by ATLfromJAX

LovelySummer is dead on correct. I lived in California after college and LA and SF Bay Area traffic is WAY worse than Atlanta's. Not even close. And Seattle, DC, and Chicago is up there. Even Austin, TX has it's growing pains now with traffic.

Everyone I heard complain about Atlanta's traffic and commutes never lived in a major city other than Atlanta. An hour+ commute in LA was common.

It's not exactly Atlanta residents, but the city has been the poster child for traffic and long commutes for years. It's so nice not to make one of these negative lists for a change.

I don't think an hour commute in Atlanta is uncommon either, but I have always thought that LA, NYC, Chicago, and a few others had much worse traffic than Atlanta.

[Ant131531]

NYC also has a world-class transit system too and many of it's highways are barely 2-4 lanes.