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Title: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 10, 2006, 01:49:52 pm: http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/traffic_1.html

By the Texas Transportation Institute's reckoning, the cities having the worst traffic problems are:

1. Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Calif.
2. San Francisco, Oakland, Calif.
3. Washington, D.C.
4. Atlanta
5. Houston
6. Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Tex.
7. Chicago.
8. Detroit
9. Riverside, San Bernardino, Calif.
9. Orlando, Fla.
11. San Jose, Calif.
12. San Diego

Gotta love Cali and TX living! Piss poor planning on mayors and city commissioners is more like it. >:(
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Death_Merchant on February 10, 2006, 02:12:11 pm: My daily 2.5 hr round trip commute is through the winning #1 entry!

So Cal does have an excuse that Texas does not...... mountains

There are only two possible paths for me to take. Only so many ways through a mountain pass....

What's Texas' excuse ?? ;-)
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Just plain old Punisher on February 10, 2006, 06:53:37 pm: The problem with San Diego is we put all of our transportation eggs in one basket -- the highways. We are also quite spread out --- and growing. The average commute distance between someones home and their work in San Diego is 25 miles one way.

I don't usually have that bad of a commute, but it can get frustrating trying to get out of SPAWAR during rush hour.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 10, 2006, 07:38:07 pm: Great to see ya DM!

Hmmmmmm, TX excuse? Ummmm, illegals making up over 20% of our cities population? Ummmmm, cellphone drivers that cause accidents? Ummmm, we inherited most of the Cali people when we went high tech? ;)

I say piss poor planning, and greed. Cities love tax dollars and a booming economy, but they do not like spending on better or more roads. Now, thanks to closet Ricky boy, Austin will have it's first toll road and it's going up much, much faster than our federal and state funded roads. >:( Now some private companies want to do that with 290 going from Austin to Manor. The citizens are saying "Hades no, you will not give our roads to some private company where we do not have a voice!"
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Villa64 on February 10, 2006, 10:21:50 pm: Austin aint in the top 10?

I think the poll was fixed.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Father Ted on February 11, 2006, 06:14:06 am: Quote from: Villa64 on February 10, 2006, 10:21:50 pm
Austin aint in the top 10?

I think the poll was fixed.

The poll was skewed by heavy turnout from Houston and DFW drivers. I live in Louisiana, but having driven through, being terrified, and ultimately surviving both the Bayou City and the Metroplex, Austin seems a bit more tame by comparison.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 11, 2006, 09:47:15 am: Austin really is not so bad. Aggressive and fast but mannerful most of the time. From 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 - 9ish a.m. you are screwed, and from 4:30 p.m. to about 6:30 p.m. are also bend over and go stop, go, stop, go times.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Sirgod on February 11, 2006, 09:51:54 am: I can't believe alburkerr... albaque... That one city in new Mexico wasn't mentioned. Man I hate doing that drive.

stephen
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 11, 2006, 09:57:58 am: :rofl:

Yup, I have to look it up too.

Albequerque

http://www1.va.gov/directory/guide/facility.asp?ID=2&dnum=ALL&map=1

Hmmmmmm, Gulf War research center. Might have to check that out as a potential experiment subject. Never been to Albaturkey before, but I hear it is very, very nice. :)
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Sirgod on February 11, 2006, 10:01:25 am: Oh some of the people there are great, Hell, My Daughter in law is from there, But man they Drive like Idiots. sorry to any posters here who live in that one particular area. But man I've seen the same Construction area going on for almost 10 years.

Stephen
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 11, 2006, 10:14:42 am: I know what you mean, it must be something in the water or the cattle that they eat. In El Paso Texans drive sane, but those N.M. people drive like numbnuts.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: The Postman on February 11, 2006, 12:23:28 pm: I am surprised the NY metro area and the I95 corridor from Boston to DC in general isn't on there.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Father Ted on February 11, 2006, 04:49:16 pm: Quote from: The Postman on February 11, 2006, 12:23:28 pm
I am surprised the NY metro area and the I95 corridor from Boston to DC in general isn't on there.

Maybe, like a football great, they retired the I95 corridor....
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Soreyes on February 12, 2006, 12:09:00 pm: 2. San Francisco, Oakland, Calif.

11. San Jose, Calif.

Welcome to Hell at 0500 and 1600 hours Monday through Friday :banghead: :whip:
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 12, 2006, 02:51:28 pm: I have a really cool Korean neighbor that used to work high tech in San Jose. He told me that it is one of the most stressful places to work, much less drive. He loves the Austin laid back and casual atmosphere in our workplaces.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Villa64 on February 15, 2006, 09:32:59 am: #1 : Fort Hood Texas immediately following PT.

Hwy190 into the rising sun, surrounded by the entire post population.
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 15, 2006, 07:03:31 pm: :rofl:

Thank God I do not live at Hood anymore. :) I had some great memories at the Sportsdome though. ;D
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Father Ted on February 15, 2006, 07:25:08 pm: Ah, the memories of Fort Hood. Killeen was a great party town, there was this one waitress who was so over the top hot...
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Jack Morris on February 15, 2006, 07:44:19 pm: Austin girls are MUCH better looking. ;)
Title: Re: Do you like traffic? 10 top worst cities for traffic.
Post by: Father Ted on February 15, 2006, 08:09:51 pm: True that. But you had to see this waitress. Fall-dead gorgeous...

I guess I should use drop-dead, but this lady was so good-looking that drop-deap would be an insult. I've met a lot of good looking women, and this one is still the hottest one I've ever crossed paths with. She looked like Carey Lowell from "Law and Order", but was better looking....