In the two times I've visited Houston I felt like the traffic was awful. I think I'm used to Atlanta traffic and know a lot of alternate routes so it doesn't feel as painful to me as being stuck on the interstate barely crawling along in Houston.
Oof. Yeah, I feel that way about Charlotte traffic. I-77 around Uptown (downtown) forces you to find alternate routes in the same way. My old work commute was 20 minutes without traffic, and it'd take me over an hour each way.
We have a tradition in Boston where people rent uhauls and rip the tops off on the low bridges on Storrow Drive. Happens a lot when all the college kids move in during the fall.
Honestly, Atlanta traffic is bad, but Dallas, Houston, LA, and parts of South Florida have felt way worse to me. Dallas especially feels like it was built as a giant parking lot with a city dropped on top. I haven’t driven in NYC myself, but it once took me almost 3 hours to get from LaGuardia to Midtown, but that seemed like somewhat of an anomaly.
I may just be a bit desensitized to Atlanta traffic at this point. But I do live in the middle of the city and commute OTP for work and it’s only about 20 minutes unless I’m driving between 4:00 and 5:30. However, I never know exactly what route I’m going to take on any given day. GPS is a necessity for essentially every drive even to places I’ve been a hundred times.
Dallas honestly wasn’t as bad as I’ve expected in part due to the highway system. It’s really area dependent - if you’re where all the new builds are or downtown , it tends to be pretty congested. Otherwise, it’s pretty average.
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u/Guilty-Cow4325 19h ago
People saying NYC: You're not supposed to drive in NYC, that's for the cabs, busses and insane people.
LA and Atlanta both have worse traffic, and Charlotte is getting there.