Comments on: D.C. Has Nation’s Third-Worst Traffic

By: Sligobob

Sligobob — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:05:09 +0000

This report comes out at the same time that the brain trust running the city wants to tear down the Whitehurst Freeway.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 09 May 2005 21:16:37 +0000

Atlanta ranks #4, which I find difficult to comprehend. How can there be three other metro areas in the U.S. with worse traffic -- and worse-planned road networks -- than here?

I'm sorry -- L.A.? The city that could not exist if not for the car? No way theirs is worse than Atlanta.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:11:13 +0000

I recently traded a one hour (each way) commute from VA to DC (including daily round trips over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge) for a 15 minute commute. Man, what a difference it makes in quality of life. Now, if I can only make this thing permanent, because it'll be very painful to go back to the one hour commute

By: Cadillac Tight

Cadillac Tight — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:13:06 +0000

Traffic? You call that traffic?
James Joyner notes that commutes in L.A. and San Francisco are longer than those he suffers in Virginia / D.C.

Having lived and worked not far from James in Reston, VA, commuting back and forth from customer sites in Aberdeen, MD, Baltimore, MD, Ale...