[lbo-talk] Renters priced out of L.A.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 13 15:42:14 PDT 2008


On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> While Los Angeles always comes out on top when you read "most
> congested" studies, it's not that far ahead of San Francisco and the
> Bay Area, which don't hold nearly the same place in the public's
> imagination of traffic jammed metropolitan areas.

The average LA person spends 72 hours stuck in traffic; the average person in the Bay Area, 60. New York's a breeze, at 46!

<http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/congestion_data/tables/national/ table_1.pdf>



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