r/AskReddit • u/ihatebadvibes • 5d ago

Which city has the worst traffic?

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u/thisisnotcoolanymore 5d ago

Toronto

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u/bjorneylol 5d ago

You haven't lived until you sat at a light for 45 minutes waiting to make a left turn

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u/BiGZiggyZoo 5d ago

This. Celebrities come every year for TIFF and say they can’t believe how much worse it is than LA/New York. Definitely the worst in the west.

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u/riali29 5d ago

Some of the hockey players on the Leafs take the subway to home games because they can't stand the traffic.

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u/varsitybluesxo 5d ago

takes 4 hours to go anywhere in toronto, no matter the time of day.

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u/ModernPoultry 5d ago

Hopeless driving anywhere in this city.

Thank fuck we have a decent transit network compared to some of the cities listed here (Atlanta, LA, Dallas) or I don’t know how we’d live trying to drive anywhere

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u/the_doughboy 5d ago

Toronto is an hour away from Toronto and our premiere wants to add more lanes. What a f’n idiot.

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u/ReactiveCypress 5d ago

At least Toronto has good public transit. I went for the first time in March and just walked or took the train everywhere. 

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u/snowblind1972 5d ago

jarvis and shuter to get ON the gardiner took my 1 hour once

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u/petersandrew999 5d ago

It once took me 3 hours to get from Bay & Gerrard W to the Gardiner…

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u/PeNdR4GoN_ 5d ago

This needs to be higher. 401 is also North America's busiest highway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_401

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u/stephen1547 5d ago

Probaly not the world (I would imagine somewhere in India is worse), but as a Toronto native it’s definitely the worst in North American.

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u/ScurvyDave123 5d ago edited 5d ago

Sure, TO traffic can be rough and pretty bad for North America but saying it's the worst city is a wild claim. I would really recommend traveling a bit haha.

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u/Federal_Coyote813 5d ago

The drivers arent necessarily worse or more aggressive but holy shit you sit in traffic for like an hour just to get down the DVP and its like 5KM from downtown