
Traffic Congestion in Seattle
Seattle's traffic has been rated as the second worst in traffic of the nation. The Seattle-Everett area got the official word today that statistically it had the second worst traffic congestion in the nation during 1999 behind Los Angeles and just a few percentage points ahead of San Francisco-Oakland.
http://www.seattlepi.com/transportation/21902_congestweb.shtml
It takes longer to travel through Seattle. This is because there is a lot of traffic congestion in Seattle. Especially during the rush hour, it takes very long to travel through the freeways and major arterials.
The traffic congestion condition has been estimated in Seattle based on the data on traffic volumes, driving times and lane miles, etc. and the data was compared for the nation's 68 largest metropolitan areas.
The Seattle-Everett area has been near the top of the institute's charts on congestion for the past few years.
The last survey done on driving time differences between rush hour and normal driving periods was in 1997, and it also showed the Seattle-Everett metropolitan area was second to Los Angeles.

