These are the highways to hell. For the second straight year, The Daily Beast ranks the roads with the worst rush hour gridlock. How does your commute rank?
More than merely expensive, long commutes are mentally debilitating. They're also completely, absolutely avoidable. With that in mind, The Daily Beast set out to determine, for the second consecutive year, which cities have the worst commutes-and specifically, which stretches of road within each city experience the worst congestion.
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Gallery: The Worst Commutes in America
To find America's Highways from Hell, we started with newly released data from traffic-tracking firm Inrix, which culls data from 4 million vehicles nationwide using Gps units and a smartphone application.
We pared and ranked our top 50 worst metropolitan areas for traffic for 2010 using Inrix's Travel Time Tax-the percentage of time it takes to navigate the area's roadways...
More than merely expensive, long commutes are mentally debilitating. They're also completely, absolutely avoidable. With that in mind, The Daily Beast set out to determine, for the second consecutive year, which cities have the worst commutes-and specifically, which stretches of road within each city experience the worst congestion.
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Gallery: The Worst Commutes in America
To find America's Highways from Hell, we started with newly released data from traffic-tracking firm Inrix, which culls data from 4 million vehicles nationwide using Gps units and a smartphone application.
We pared and ranked our top 50 worst metropolitan areas for traffic for 2010 using Inrix's Travel Time Tax-the percentage of time it takes to navigate the area's roadways...
- 3/8/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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