[Oistrakh12]

It’s been mentioned that traffic in Vegas is getting worse and worse during he past 5 years. Do you think it will ever become as bad as the traffic in LA?

[Willy702]

Not a chance.

[orca17]

No. Sheer population numbers tell you that. I do think that I-15 and Russell will be an area to avoid on game days once the Raiders arrive, as people will also be trying to get back to California after a weekend here.

[JonathanLB]

Hahaha no chance. I have no idea what the locals are talking about of course as I have no frame of reference having just moved here, but the “traffic” here is an epic joke. I wonder if some of these people complaining have ever lived anywhere else? Or did they move from small town America?! I just took my wife to the airport Friday at 5 pm and I was going 70 the entire way there! I don’t think some people here actually even know what traffic is. If I was on the freeway in Portland, Seattle, or Los Angeles at 5 pm on a Friday I would PRAY to be going 15! I would likely be between 3 and 9 miles per hour most of the way. There’s almost no traffic at all in this city.

[LRWalker]

Not only will it never bee as bad, the conditions of our roads are so much better. anyone who has driven the 91 in Orange county knows what I mean

[popwar]

I think traffic in my current area (Greenville,SC - Asheville,NC) is worse than Vegas and even Phoenix. It's just not big enough with mostly only 2 lane highways.

[luckydogg]

Could anything is this world ever be as bad as the 405 through West LA? Or any part of the 405 all at, from San Fernando all the way to Irvine?

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by luckydogg

Could anything is this world ever be as bad as the 405 through West LA? Or any part of the 405 all at, from San Fernando all the way to Irvine?

I did the 405 between the 605 and El Segundo for 20 years. My wife did it for 10. In fact we rigged her car with a GPS and an amateur radio so we could track her. She had a car phone so if she got caught in a Friday night down pour and needed to use the Long Beach detour she could be found and recovered.

In the early hours of the morning you could do it in under 25 minutes. On a bad Friday afternoon it could run 1 and 1/2 hours. And we were good at it. Knew all the back ways after the Harbor freeway. But on a bad night even the back ways shut down.

Nothing equivalent in Las Vegas. Only thing you watch out for is getting caught on 15 with an accident blocking one direction. Spent over an hour a couple of times in those. Now I always run google maps which picks them up pretty quickly.

[luckydogg]

Originally Posted by lvmensch

I did the 405 between the 605 and El Segundo for 20 years. My wife did it for 10.

My condolences to you both, I would not have survived.

[Svoboda]

The "traffic" here is laughable. Every time I hear someone complain about the traffic here, I honestly question their ability to function. You can get from one side of town to the other in under 30-45 minutes even in "rush hour" traffic. It would be even less if people drove with an inkling of personal responsibility and consideration for others on the road. Weaving in and out of lanes, cutting people off to save 15 seconds causes that little congestion you call traffic.

I routinely buy lots of NellisAuction and have to drive from Summerlin over to their location by Auto Show Drive and can make it quickly even with the current construction bottleneck just before Buffalo and then the idiots that don't know how to get into their correct lanes at the spaghetti bowl by downtown. Those are the only two spots you even slow down and it's for a few seconds. My wife works at the VA hospital up on Pecos and can make it home to the Summerlin area in 20-30 minutes going 215 to 95 to SP to Rampart.

I visited LA on vacation a couple years ago and it took me 45 minutes to go a couple miles multiple times. I've been in Chicago on the Dan Ryan where I probably went a quarter of a mile in 2 hours due to rush hour flooding into the suburbs from downtown. Las Vegas has no traffic. We have mild congestion and only at certain times.