We're #5!! In traffic congestion

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jul 4, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>We're #5!! In traffic congestion</h1>
                <h2><p>Seattle Times reporter Mike Lindblom delivers the bad news from a national traffic rankings report newly-released by the Tom Tom navigation company. Seattle was the fifth most congested city. Some sobering stats: Seattle drivers with a 30-minute commute wasted 23 minutes per day in traffic jams last year; that'</p></h2>
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            <p><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-congestion-were-no-5/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Seattle Times reporter Mike Lindblom delivers</a> the bad news from a national traffic rankings report newly-released by the Tom Tom navigation company. Seattle was the fifth most congested city. Some sobering stats: Seattle drivers with a 30-minute commute wasted 23 minutes per day in traffic jams last year; that's 89 extra hours a year, more than two work weeks. Best commuting days (no surprise) are Mondays and Fridays. Avoid Thursdays at all costs. In fact, the most congested day of 2014 was Thursday, July 31.</p><p>Tom Tom’s top 10, in order: LA, San Francisco, Honolulu, New York, Seattle, San Jose, Miami, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Portland.</p>
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Seattle Times reporter Mike Lindblom delivers the bad news from a national traffic rankings report newly-released by the Tom Tom navigation company. Seattle was the fifth most congested city. Some sobering stats: Seattle drivers with a 30-minute commute wasted 23 minutes per day in traffic jams last year; that's 89 extra hours a year, more than two work weeks. Best commuting days (no surprise) are Mondays and Fridays. Avoid Thursdays at all costs. In fact, the most congested day of 2014 was Thursday, July 31.

Tom Tom’s top 10, in order: LA, San Francisco, Honolulu, New York, Seattle, San Jose, Miami, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Portland.

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,