What is going on everyone welcome back to the world according to Briggs my name
is Briggs and like everyone else I hate traffic
I cannot stand sitting still in traffic did you know traffic is the second most
searched thing when someone is researching a move it's right behind
housing costs third most search thing is if the location is pet friendly they
actually look that up before safety and crime I don't know about you but I'm
gonna make sure I'm safe before I find out if my Labradoodle can make friends
at the local park everyone thinks traffic is the worst
wherever they live it's just a fact of life when you're a human
something stalls you you get irritated you can be stuck behind a tractor in
Disco Wisconsin unable to pass and say to yourself traffic and discos getting
out of hand it's so bad and we don't even have a stoplight the thing is this
traffic in this country cities is really really bad some have such bad traffic
you think the mayor and the city planner should be arrested in Washington they
have a company that studies traffic and they rank 200 cities in the US by how
many hours on average they spend in traffic each year and how much it costs
them each year I'm gonna show you the worst ten and of course we got to start
with number ten Philadelphia a growing population construction and more
businesses are all factors in the nightmare that is Philadelphia traffic
Billy added about 18,000 jobs from 2008 to 2018 which is good what ain't good is
almost 60% of those workers commute by car and about 50% of them communal own
about 7,500 vehicles a day travel Chestnut east of Broad Street that's up
20 percent from 2011 that's according to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning
Commission the traffic is crazy in the City of Brotherly Love
I actually saw dude get hit in a crosswalk on 15th and Chestnut it was
horrible all over the windshield of the car I actually cried now the pedestrian
was fine he just lost control of his cheesesteak and it went all over the
windshield of the car it was so sad Philadelphia residents spent about 112
hours a year in traffic costing them about fifteen hundred and sixty-eight
dollars in time fuel sanity etc the auto insurance rates are 10th in the nation
their average annual premium is just under three thousand dollars two
thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars to be exact
number nine Portland Oregon so yeah this is where I live and I can tell you in
the ten years since I moved here from Los Angeles there's been a serious
increase in traffic now it's nothing crazy like Los Angeles but it's gotten
worse when I moved up here a lot of people
were out of work as most of the country so I imagine that played into the light
rush-hour traffic that started changing about five or six years ago maybe a
little bit more the max which is our train system started filling up most
days not just the rush hours all day I mean from 7 a.m. till about 7:00 at
night it was rough then the traffic started getting crazy too traffic trying
to get across any of the bridges was bad before now it's just insane add on that
at any given moment protests could break out and for some freaking reason they
decided to stop traffic to get their point across
maybe that worked in 2010 these days it's overdone and the only thing you're
accomplishing is people hate you and your cause because you're keeping them
from a happy hour with friends or some lame TV singing competition they need to
watch live because you know watching it and DVR just isn't the same Portland
Oregon residents spend 116 hours a year in traffic costing them about sixteen
hundred and twenty-five dollars the study finds number eight San Francisco
San Francisco which I believe is also called the City of Brotherly Love yep
there it is Wikipedia it's also called Fox that eat the Golden City the city by
the bay it really should be called the city I got stuck on a bridge over Bay
and I'll never go back too long I'll work on it San Francisco has almost 900
thousand residents and the metro area has about 4.5 million and every time I
go to San Fran I get the feeling they all drive at once and they're all in
front of me now the city has gotten better at least on traffic lists when it
comes to traffic obviously really San Francisco traffic hasn't gotten
continually worse like others on this list their traffic suckage has been
outpaced by other cities so they've slipped down to number eight they still
suck really bad San Francisco residents spend 119 hours a year in traffic and it
cost them about sixteen hundred and fifty nine dollars not good number seven
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania of the ten most congested urban areas in the u.s.
Pittsburgh ranked seventh up from number eleven last year which is a five percent
increase Pittsburgh's
inner-city last-mile travel time which is something they measure is six minutes
and the inner city last mile travel speed is 11 miles per hour now if you
study traffic that means a lot but doesn't mean a lot to other people
anyway they got bad traffic this is one of the reasons Pittsburgh is losing
people while gaining good-paying jobs Pittsburgh is the home of Carnegie
Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh the city is attracting
companies like Google that are eager to hire young graduates housing remaining
affordable is another plus but the city's growth is partly kind of held
back from a high taxes and bee traffic congestion which may be pushing some of
the residents to the suburbs or consider other cities entirely a lot of small
towns in Pennsylvania are kind of blowing up because people don't want to
drive into the cities they're working from home a lot of cases according to n
Rex a company that actually studies traffic the best way to remedy
congestion in Pittsburgh is to invest in a better transportation system there's
sucks Pittsburgh Pennsylvania residents spend 127 hours in traffic a year
costing them about seventeen hundred seventy six dollars a year number six
Seattle Washington I've been to Seattle a number times I've driven in the city
twice the first time I thought it was heavy traffic and I really didn't know
the city that made it really suck for driving the second time I thought it was
heavy traffic and everyone was high as a kite that made it suck for driving
really Seattle has a history of transit failures voters rejected a modern
electric transit system in 1972 1995 they voted reject a six billion dollar
transit plan a plan was passed in 1997 to extend the monorail people were
evicted from their homes businesses were sent packing and kids in flannel shirts
and beanies were forced to find a new place to hang out this was all done by
the whole eminent domain thing to lay new tracks for the monorail then they
just didn't do it kicked all those people out and then they just didn't do
it that gets us to present-day where most people feel they won't make any
real improvements to the roads so people will start using public transit now I
say that knowing that they did just open SR 99 which is a traffic tunnel under
Seattle in February of this year 2019 we'll see how much that helps the city
when they do a study next year but they've done a lot of things that have
totally failed so here's hoping on average' Seattle resident will spend a
hundred and thirty-eight hours of their year stuck in traffic costing them an
additional one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars number five
Los Angeles if you didn't know traffic was bad in LA then you're under five
years old so let's assume we all know the freeways in the City of Angels
resemble a terracotta army of fuel-efficient cars
I lived here most of my life and it sucked long before I was born my mom had
stories of bad traffic when she was a teen in the 1960s in Los Angeles the
freeways are a joke in the train system is the punch line I could go on and on
about LA traffic but I want this video to be under eight hours the good news
about owning a car in Los Angeles which everyone does is insurance isn't
terrible compared to the other major cities Geico won't set you back that
much one of Los Angeles's biggest problems is everybody owns a car like I
had said and taking the bus or the train is viewed as a form of birth control
because nobody is sleep with you after you've been spotted on a bus in Los
Angeles the average person spends a hundred and thirty-eight hours of their
year in traffic setting them back almost two thousand dollars number four New
York City once again New York City makes a list that is a result of being
overcrowded New York City has over 28,000 people per square mile in
comparison Boston has 13,000 per square mile LA about 8,000 per square mile and
on the other side of the spectrum you have Anchorage Alaska and it has about
175 people per square mile it's like nobody there it's really weird besides
everything costing too much in New York City driving parking insurance and
owning a car in general cost so much most people take the subway cabs rice
chair services and it's still too packed on the streets sucks the word gridlock
was invented for New York City it's used so much in the Big Apple I'd say a
couple thousand times a day each block somebody says gridlock if you drive in
the city the average New Yorker spends a hundred and thirty nine hours of their
year sitting in traffic and it cost them over two thousand dollars a year number
three Chicago a recent study said that a 12 mile stretch of the Kennedy
Expressway is the worst bottleneck in the nation if you live in or near
Chicago this is no surprise to you I was stuck in an uber on the Eisenhower
Expressway lasts eight roll it suck it was standstill it was
horrible but I had my phone I was doing things my driver may have been crying
I'm not even making a joke I think this man was crying there were a couple
sniffles and whimpers that were suspect I felt bad for him for a while I don't
know what's going on in his life I don't know if it was the traffic I don't know
what was going on but I think my uber driver was crying that was weird anyway
it's not just the expressway in Chicago surface street side streets alleys
parking lots the only place you won't find bumper-to-bumper traffic is
probably in Lake Michigan in Chicago Illinois the average resident spends
about a hundred and thirty nine hours a year in traffic and it costs him about
$2,000 extra here just to be stuck in traffic when all things are considered
number two Washington DC like I said about crime and poverty in our nation's
capital traffic shouldn't be a thing this is the nation's capital it should
be perfect or as close to perfect as we can get it doesn't that make sense to
everyone I mean this is our first impression for a lot of foreign
dignitaries and people tourists whatever our nation's headquarters suck in so
many ways if the framers of this great country got in a time machine and saw
what was going to happen to Washington DC they probably would have headed back
to England on their hands and knees like a boyfriend that got caught cheating and
beg to be taken back traffic is ridiculous they have a lot of issues
going on but one of the main things is tourists and people that are new to the
city it also doesn't help that there's almost zero parking in this city you
know tourists and people knew the city continually circled the block looking
for a mythical parking place that never appears all these things add up in a
very busy city the average resident spends about a hundred and fifty five
hours a year stuck in traffic in our nation's capital and this cost them
about two thousand one hundred sixty one dollars crazy and number one Boston
congratulations Boston you suck and not in a good way either you're the worst
city for traffic in the nation according to several studies not just one I feel
like I should send them balloons or flowers or something like that there are
a bunch of reasons Boston took the top spot this year population growth old
roads challenges that confront the Boston public transit system the T
including aging infrastructure frequent delays and breakdowns escalate
operating costs and the never-ending series Affairs make people not want to
take the tea when it is working that is just a few of the situations the people
of Boston are in when it comes to traffic and any kind of travel if you're
looking to move to Boston and have a mortgage here be warned you won't be
spending as much time as you think at that new home that's because the average
Boston resident spends a hundred and sixty four hours a year in traffic
costing them about two thousand two hundred and ninety one dollars a year
it is horrible traffic in Boston
alright so that is my top ten worst states for traffic in the United States
I guess hope you guys enjoyed I hope you got some adoration out of it this is
really weird one because it is one of the main things people look at when
they're moving so I hope this helps someone out don't forget all the links
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