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Old 11-17-2010, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Englewood,CO
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So they're saying Denver has a big difference between peak and off-peak travel times and using that to say Denver has the 3rd worse traffic in the country? Of course that wouldn't take into effect the length of peak hours. Denver has a couple of peak hours in the morning and evening. LA's peak hours encompass most of the day and the weekends too.
Denver's short peak hours would probably make traffic look worse statistically than it is.
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Old 11-17-2010, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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So they're saying Denver has a big difference between peak and off-peak travel times and using that to say Denver has the 3rd worse traffic in the country? Of course that wouldn't take into effect the length of peak hours. Denver has a couple of peak hours in the morning and evening. LA's peak hours encompass most of the day and the weekends too.
Ditto DC.
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Old 11-17-2010, 07:31 PM
 
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Ditto DC.
Yeah the DC traffic starts at 5am to 10am, and again at 3pm to 8pm...weekends all day..and Sunday traffic is horrible till the late night hours as people come back in to town...

Having bad traffic is nothing to brag about - it can affect an area negatively economically and in the quality of life: the people who live there and tourists who probably won't return for a second visit.
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Old 11-20-2010, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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I-25 never really seems out of the ordinary as far as rush hour / peak time traffic goes. Seems pretty comparable to any major highway that effectively transits people from downtown to the 'burbs.

The surface streets can get nasty, I'll give you that. Colorado in particular...even Colfax usually moves more smoothly. We have a few "major" surface streets that narrow to one lane in some spots that bottleneck things. All that said, I live close enough to where I generally travel that I don't notice the traffic that much and it really doesn't seem any worse at rush hour than any other city.
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Old 11-20-2010, 10:21 PM
 
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What I got from the PDF was that there were two measures of traffic. Hours of congestion and difference in time in transit between off peak hours and peak hours. It rated Denver in the worst cities in off peak hours vs peak hours.
this is known as the travel time index and is seriously flawed. Everything You Know About Traffic May be Wrong - Up Front Blog - Brookings Institution
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Old 03-27-2011, 12:11 AM
 
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Denver's short peak hours would probably make traffic look worse statistically than it is.
denvers longterm traffic is much worst than really statiics say.
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Old 03-27-2011, 01:04 AM
 
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there are a lot worse places than denver when it comes to traffic congestion. several places in california come to mind.
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Old 03-27-2011, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Denver traffics not so bad. On my last visit I had pretty much event free driving from Thursday night thru Sunday when I left except I ran into a jam on I-70 just before the Denver Coliseum one night. There must have been an accident or something up ahead and we were stuck in traffic about 20 minutes before we got directed off the highway and got a little lost trying to find an alternate way to I-225 and back to our hotel in Aurora.

That wasn't so nice but like I said we drove all over town, Aurora, the Northern Suburbs and out to Black Hawk over 4 days and that was our only bad experience.

Certainly nothing compared to driving in Atlanta.

Here's traffic in Atlanta right now ( 3:27 pm eastern) on the Connector (I-75/85) North Bound at Edgewood Downtown. Probably mostly folks returning from their Florida weekend trips. And this on Sunday!


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Old 03-28-2011, 01:29 AM
 
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no no no denver is terrible. its the worst in the world it takes hours to get out of, i was going soutg i25 at five it took 2 hours to get from 76 to lincoln it never eased up til after castle rock. ive been to l.a and ny thats nothing, denvrs much worst and when it snows forget it. kiss your job tank gas bumpers good bye. family too as half your day is in traffic.
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Old 03-28-2011, 02:02 AM
 
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