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Posted: 3/30/2019 7:49:34 PM EDT

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I-65 between Birmingham and Montgomery once, around 2002. I was southbound and there was some sort of stoppage. Like...ALL southbound lanes at a complete stop. For a long time. Probably 2-3 hours. People shut their cars off, somebody broke out footballs and frisbees and there was a lot of just people playing and talking and hanging out until traffic started moving again. By the time I got to where ever the stoppage was, it was completely gone.

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I drive 65 everyday, before they added another lane, it would take me 2 1/2 hours to go 7.2 miles to get home on a Friday night.

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:51:26 PM EDT

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My vote goes to Atlanta.

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+ 1 30miles long.

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:55:21 PM EDT

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Top 5 in no particular order, L.A., Denver, Atlanta, Tampa/St.Pete, Washington D.C

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:55:43 PM EDT

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Miami rushhour

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I won't go in before 11am and must be out by 3pm.... Otherwise fucked for hours.

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:58:18 PM EDT

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Milan, Italy.

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:58:18 PM EDT

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NYC, lower Manhattan, rush hour....fucking ugh!

Posted: 3/30/2019 7:58:55 PM EDT

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My vote goes to Atlanta.

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Bad but worst in the US? Nowher fucking close...

Posted: 3/30/2019 8:00:43 PM EDT

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Milan, Italy.

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I've been there a few times and never found it too bad. Finding a place to park on the other hand...

Posted: 3/30/2019 8:02:10 PM EDT

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About a year ago, I was flying out of Sao Paulo on Good Friday. It took between 3 and 4 hours to go 15 miles to get to the airport. I could have literally walked faster, though would have probably been smushed like a bug if I had tried.

Hillariously, I had an uber that was natural gas powered, and the conversion was imperfect, so stalled if sitting still for more than 10 or 20 minutes. I was sweating bullets that the battery would eventually die, since it wasn't ever moving faster than 5mph, and my attempt to explain "rev up the engine so it charges" was not getting through at all.

Uber only billed me ~$40 for that one, I was kind of expecting a massive bill.

Posted: 3/30/2019 8:06:26 PM EDT

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Bangalore India. There are almost no signals; traffic rules are more suggestions rather than enforced standards. Took me 5 hours just to get out of the city during the day.

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Baku, Azerbaijan for me. Same chaos; less time, though.

Folks there who had been to India and Egypt said it was not as bad as those places. So, can only imagine.

Have been in traffic going absolutely nowhere in the U.S. - due to construction, accidental, sporting events, etc... it’s still inherently so much more civilized.

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:38:22 PM EDT

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As a whole?
Seattle
LA
DC
Boston

Single event?
I remember as a kid the narrows bridge shut down due to some accident and being stuck stopped for like 4 hours with no where to go.

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:46:51 PM EDT

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Chicago and Atlanta! Both suck ass!

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:47:01 PM EDT

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Christmas eve, 1997, Washington, D.C. beltway. It started freezing rain at about 2:30 p.m. I took me 4.5 hours to go 30 miles (from Bladensburg to Gaithersburg).

The radio in my car was broken. (there were no cell phones, no imteemet).

I was loopy from the car exhaust fumes and the boredom.

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:50:49 PM EDT

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Haven'r read the full thread, but has anyone mentioned Bangkok yet?

They take gridlock to a whole new level. The red lights are 15 minutes long. If you need to get anywhere, you take a motorcycle taxi. Not a tuk tuk, but an actual motorcycle, where you hold on to the driver.

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:53:01 PM EDT

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NYC, Followed by Atlanta trying to get out of town after a race that had been run Mon. due to rainout on Sun.

Was stuck on 75 in KY once for about 4 hrs due to bad crash down the road. Several miles South of Lexington,
NOWHERE to get off.

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:54:19 PM EDT

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Houston

Specifically getting out of Houston as Rita was coming

Posted: 3/30/2019 10:55:54 PM EDT

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Manila just after a rainstorm when half the streets seemed to be flooded.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:03:04 PM EDT

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paris france, holy shit

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Yeah, but Taipei is worse.
Imagine Paris traffic, then add 25 mopeds for every car, and the mopeds appear to follow no rules, order, common sense or even will to survive.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:10:15 PM EDT

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Manila just after a rainstorm when half the streets seemed to be flooded.

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I have been to 30+ countries and Manila has been the worst traffic wise so far.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:11:23 PM EDT

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Wyoming...

....right after the 2017 eclipse. Casper to Cheyenne was near-apocalyptic.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:11:44 PM EDT

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Dc/va/Md, anything else is amateur hour

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Posted: 3/30/2019 11:12:54 PM EDT

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About 5 years ago I was driving on an autobahn in Germany when the traffic grinded to halt. We were stuck in stand still traffic for more than one hour, everyone was getting out of their cars just to stretch their legs. Turns out some dude plowed into the back of a semi when he was going really fast.

What was cool was walking to the median and watching cars on the other side of the road fly by at 100+ MPH.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:13:33 PM EDT

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Trying to get through Orlando in late January 2019. Interstate was a mess, had to resort to surface streets. Still took 2hours to get across the city.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:15:00 PM EDT

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Winner.

I've driven in Boston, Dallas, San Antonio, New York City, south Florida, San Francisco, Honolulu, Glasgow (Scotland).
Nothing compares to Korea.

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seoul, korea

Winner.

I've driven in Boston, Dallas, San Antonio, New York City, south Florida, San Francisco, Honolulu, Glasgow (Scotland).
Nothing compares to Korea.

Seoul has extremely civilized traffic.

Some of you need to get out more. Hell, even within this country, Busan is worse.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:18:31 PM EDT

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Long Beach Freeway, 1987.

Posted: 3/30/2019 11:42:03 PM EDT

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Chicago

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I won't drive thru there again. South to Indy then west, fuck driving in that other shit.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:00:01 AM EDT

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Sunday night in Naples, Italy.

When Luigi wants to get home, one-way streets aren't.

Paris was bad but not crazy.

London was bad but mostly because I had to drive on the wrong side of the street shifting with my left hand.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:04:56 AM EDT

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Grew up in Vegas. Bad but not BAD.
Hung out lots in SOCAL growing up.
That was BAD.
Naples Italy. Indescrible.
I had to walk over a scooter to cross the street as a pedestrian. Huge fucking roundabout with everyone honking and screaming.

It was awesome.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:13:24 AM EDT

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Five car + one semi accident on the interstate between Madison and Milwaukee.

I was headed home from checking my trail cameras. Entire eastbound side shut down. We were parked for 3.5-4 hours.

Someone stuck next to me was on their way to the Brewers game. Found out we were still going to be stuck for at least an hour so they fired the grill up on the interstate. Got a free burger at least.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:15:47 AM EDT

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Going from Vegas to Simi Valley to Reagans lying in state at his Library. It was smooth sailing till we were a few miles away then it took hours and hours. Had to do it though.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:18:47 AM EDT

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Going from Chula Vista to Naval Base San Diego after it had moderately rained one day....

Over 3 hours to go less than ten miles. There was something like 200 wrecks in a 50 mile corridor going toward LA that had the interstate gridlocked in that area all the way south.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:27:01 AM EDT

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Atlanta traffic is pretty shit. And yet more and more people keep packing in here

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:29:13 AM EDT

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I used to drive a tow truck in the San Francisco bay area. I was always picking up wrecks on the freeways, lots of nasty ones. There were times that I couldn't get through the traffic to get to the scene because it was jam packed.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:30:32 AM EDT

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Los Angeles, 405 Fwy., rush hour (which is just about any hour.)

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:33:04 AM EDT

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In 1997, seven vehicle crash on the bay bridge in San Francisco. Traffic didnt move for over three hours.

Posted: 3/31/2019 12:33:41 AM EDT

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Chicago

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And missed the exit. Add another 2 hours to get back on track.

Posted: 3/31/2019 8:03:43 AM EDT

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The day of our big "snowstorm," it took my wife 6 1/2 hours to drive what would normally take 25/30 minutes. Glad I missed both of these.

One night, it took me an hour to drive a mile to Boston Market, pick up dinner, and come back. And, that wasn't all that out of the ordinary. I hate driving around here between 4pm and 7pm.

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I have to add a couple more after reading some of the responses.

Nashville during the winter of 2015 (I think). One of our engineers lives 5 miles from the office. She left work at 5:00 and didn't get home until after 10:00. When I first started working in Nashville I lived in Clarksville about 45 miles northwest. It started snowing midday one day so I left my office about 1:00, picked up my wife a few miles from my office and headed home. Didn't get there until after 11:00. Once I got to I-24 it took about 45 minutes to go the remaining 30 miles to home, but it took nearly 9 hours to go the first 10 miles.

And another would be Talladega, AL after a race. Last race I went to there we brought grills to cook burgers after the race. We got to the car and there was a Mustang sitting in line to get out. We lit the charcoal, waited for it to get ready, cooked burgers, ate, cleaned up, etc. Probably 3 hours killed. That Mustang is still sitting in the same tire tracks it was 3 hours earlier.

Posted: 3/31/2019 8:18:11 AM EDT

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Chicago

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This... I was in The Loop and it was like a parking lot for almost a solid hour. What made this particular trip memorable was that there was a guy in the car next to me who was getting a little oral treat from his girlfriend. He looked my way, smiled at me, and gave me a thumbs up.

Posted: 3/31/2019 8:37:27 AM EDT

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New York City, any and all boroughs.
Garden State Parkway, NJ.
Toronto area highways when on a business trip there.

Posted: 3/31/2019 8:45:18 AM EDT

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Bangkok

Posted: 3/31/2019 8:48:06 AM EDT

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Chicago
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Posted: 3/31/2019 9:02:43 AM EDT

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Stuck on the Oakland Bay Bridge for hours around 03

Posted: 3/31/2019 9:08:15 AM EDT

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Toronto area during rush hour(s), in a manual transmission car

Posted: 3/31/2019 9:10:06 AM EDT

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495 the other day.

Posted: 3/31/2019 9:17:10 AM EDT

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Day to day:

Islamabad
Naples

Worst single day ever was Washington D.C. during snowmageddon in 2010. The combination of a late afternoon snowfall start (around 2-3pm) and people choosing to work all day made for the worse traffic jam in D.C. history. The government did not close, but the roads were kinda fucked by about 3pm. So people started going home. Hours later, cars were abandoned on freeway onramps having run out of gas. Some people never made it home, opting to sleep elsewhere or in their cars. A friend of mine drove ten hours to finally get home in the wee hours of the morning. My normally 45 minute, 19-mile commute took 2.5 hours but I was heading away from the city.

Posted: 3/31/2019 9:18:19 AM EDT

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Trying to get to the Vegas Nascar race in 2000. Left hotel at 7:30 and it was after 10 when we got in the parking lot, and I had to piss for the last hour but I was stuck in the middle of the rear seat, leaving was nearly as bad just getting out of the lot.

Posted: 3/31/2019 9:24:08 AM EDT

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I was in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria helping with cleanup efforts.

Driving from San Juan to Caguas, a short 30 mile trip, took every bit of 2 hours on more than one occasion.

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I shit you not, I can pick a 30 mile beeline route across D.C. that will take you 2 hours every day at 7am with perfect weather and no accidents along the route.