Worst metro-area traffic

Seattle's is pretty terrible and is the worst when there is snow, hands down.

I have experienced much worse traffic in the Metroplex than I have in Austin, but maybe I have just been lucky. On the way to an MLS game recently, it took us 2.5 hours to go about 13 miles heading north to Frisco. But I heard they finished the toll road to Frisco, so maybe it isn't as bad now. It sucked when they were building it because you had to drive about 15 miles on access roads and the stop lights just killed traffic.

 

And the bastard child of a rollercoaster and a clusterfuck that goes by the name of the Mixing Bowl. Coming off the Beltway on the east side, you feel like at the top if you jumped the barrier and went flying, you'd clear Springfield before you landed.

 

orlando's pretty much a clusterfuck too... at least compared to st. louis

 

Drove from Austin to Vermont this summer (and back) via OKC, Nashville, DC, NYC.

Only time I was really anxious was crossing the GWB. Ten lanes merged into one with no warning, and I was certain I was going to be squished.

Austin's a pain, not gonna lie. The lack of a good east/west cross-town is a hassle. That said, I'll take it over DFW any day.

 

I lived three years in Orlando. It's not the traffic so much -- it's the fucking tourists. They act like they're from a foreign land (a lot of them are).

Red light? Where? Oh well. Island in the middle of a six-lane road? But I needed to turn back there -- I'll just make a U-turn here.

And if the left-turn light turns red, be ready to count at least five cars go through the red light before they stop.

I swear you take your life into your hands.

 

Driving around Baltimore and D.C. can be fun if you know when and where to go. Driving inside the district or anywhere around it at rush hour is time suicide.

I won't go anywhere near NYC at 5 p.m. in my own car. In my experience, I can walk from one end to the city to the other faster than you can drive it.

Atlanta sucks ass but not nearly as bad as the two above.

 

Eh, you get used to it. But whoever said it had a point: too many polls. Point taken.

 

I'm a traditionalist who only likes to encounter rush hour traffic at rush hour.

 

DC and Chicago are fucking horrible.

There is no traffic that's a problem in St. Louis.

 

Wait ... does that mean there won't be a Best Metro-area Traffic thread?

 

Sorry to let you down, but that seems to be the case.

 

And that's why I don't use blue font. It's a cheap giggle, but it's a giggle ...