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DC is very bad, for a city with more highways, less people, and more transit ridership it always baffled me how much worse the traffic is in DC relative to Philly, especially if you know the highways in Philly which many times have not been upgraded since the 40/50's
Don't expect much to change for DC either. I don't think they can do much anyway. 66 is an abomination inside the beltway. 295/B-W Parkway likely will never expand. Only 495 can only expand. You really can't put another freeway anywhere anyway unless you tunnel it.
One of the biggest reasons that LA is not on the top of the above study is that people tend to live close to work here - multiple employment hubs make that easier than in many centralized cities (Houston is another multi-hub city, so I wouldn't be surprised if people lived close to their work there as well.
Houston is not as multi-hub because Greenway Plaza has grown enormously to connect Downtown with Galleria/Uptown. The inner loop is now a centralized hub. (The Medical Center is another example of growth connecting Downtown Houston, but southward. In true Houstonian fashion, the Astrodome area has been "annexed" to the Texas Medical Center.)
Actually most Houstonians who work in Galleria/Uptown-Greenway Plaza-Downtown Houston live on the Westside (Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress and Southwest/West Houston). But most people who work Downtown are from The Woodlands (an exburb 40 miles away) and Northern Harris County (suburbs 20-30 miles away).
Houston is not as multi-hub because Greenway Plaza has grown enormously to connect Downtown with Galleria/Uptown. The inner loop is now a centralized hub. (The Medical Center is another example of growth connecting Downtown Houston, but southward. In true Houstonian fashion, the Astrodome area has been "annexed" to the Texas Medical Center.)
Actually most Houstonians who work in Galleria/Uptown-Greenway Plaza-Downtown Houston live on the Westside (Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress and Southwest/West Houston). But most people who work Downtown are from The Woodlands (an exburb 40 miles away) and Northern Harris County (suburbs 20-30 miles away).
No matter what any study or conventional wisdom tells me, I personally feel that Atlanta's routes, especially freeways, trump both in terms of some of the worst traffic.
Traffic does move on in LA and Houston, no matter how congested. The few times I've driven in and around Atlanta...that traffic never seemed to move.
Haha - does it really win if it has WORSE traffic?
LA wins the award for the worst traffic in the counrty.
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