America's Worst Traffic

[BurnItDwn]

I do agree that is a pretty terrible bottleneck, but the Dan Ryan isn't that bad. I don't go down that way often, but every time it isn't too terrible.

As far as an entire city itself, Austin is probably the worst I've seen. It is just horribly designed and Loop 1 (which isn't a loop, btw) is terrible. People also suffer from 'up hill syndrome' or some garbage. Since the majority of the road is going uphill, they believe it will go over the crest and require them to brake. However, this never happens in Austin. Despite driving this route every day, the morons continue to do this anyway and it results in incredibly backed up traffic for zero reason.

Ehh, I don't take the interstate or enter the city on a regular basis. I know that the NW tollway is usually really terribly slow out by Elgin. The Tri-state used to have about 100 terribad chokepoints, but, since they've widened it, it's significantly better ...

Anyhow .. During my day to day commute, I'm stuck on suburban surface roads and often spend 30 mins traveling the first 5 miles, then another 30 mins or so doing the remaining 15 miles of my 20 mile commute. You know how it is in the NW burbs....