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“Big-City Rush Hour Blues Now Afflict Smaller Cities: 36 hours. That’s the additional time the average U.S. urban traveler spends on the road per year because of rush-hour congestion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. What’s more, commuters in medium-size cities now face about the same delays that residents of “very large” cities experienced a quarter-century ago, the TTI says”.

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Top 10 most congested metro areas:
1 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA
2 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
3 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI
4 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
5 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
6 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
7 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
8 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
9 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
10 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

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