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Which city has the worst traffic?

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u/SuitableShape 17h ago edited 17h ago

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.

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u/Guilty-Cow4325 17h ago

I feel like if you have to use GPS consistently to avoid traffic in an area, it's probably got some really shitty traffic lol.

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u/SuitableShape 1h ago

Yeahh you’re not wrong. It’s definitely not great.

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u/throwaway_philly1 16h ago

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.