how’s your commute?
the national traffic scorecard ranks minneapolis/st. paul as the 10th worst metro for traffic congestion for 2008, up three spots from the previous year. i have a hard time believing that our traffic is worse than, say, the traffic in phoenix (number 13), but the data says otherwise.
according to this study, thursdays from 5-6 p.m. is the metro area’s worst time for congestion and bottleneck traffic. december is the worst month for traffic; june is the second worst month.
traffic in 2008 was down 20.5% from the previous year. it was down in all ranked cities. if only it were because americans everywhere were commuting by bike instead.
My commute has always involved crossing 494, and it’s always been horrible — first east to west and now west to east. I notice the traffic reports tend to skip the congestion at 35/494 in the mornings because it’s a no-brainer that traffic is at a dead stop.
IMO, yet another reason that we shouldn’t subsidize a light rail that can only serve a fraction of commuters (let alone can’t pay for itself) while thousands of people sit idling at a dead stop on our interstates.
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