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 September 21, 2007

Top Cities with Traffic That Will Drive You Insane
You are right! Traffic is really as bad as you think.

The nation's drivers spent a total of 4.2 billion hours battling in traffic jams in 2005, according to the Texas Traffic Institute urban mobility report released this week. San Diego tops the list.
That's 38 hours each year per driver - nearly an entire work week. Here's a list of urban areas where the institute discovered the worst traffic jams, with the number of hours per year drivers spent behind the wheel: Large-Sized Cities & Metro Areas:
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, California: 72 hours
San Francisco-Oakland, California: 60
Washington, DC Metro Area: 60
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas: 58
Houston, Texas: 56
Detroit, Michigan: 54
Miami, Florida: 50
Phoenix, Arizona: 48
Chicago, Illinois: 46
New York-Newark metro area: 46
Boston, Massachusetts: 46
Seattle, Washington: 45
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metro area: 38

Medium-Sized Cities:

San Diego, California: 57 hours
San Jose, California: 54 " Orlando, Florida: 54
Denver-Aurora, Colorado: 50
Riverside-San Bernardino, California: 49
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida: 45
Baltimore, Maryland: 44
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota: 43
Indianapolis, Indinana: 43
Sacramento, California: 41
Las Vegas, Nevada: 39
San Antonio, Texas: 39
Portland, Oregon: 38
Columbus, Ohio: 33
St. Louis, Missouri: 33

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