{"id":389534,"date":"2026-07-07T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:02:14","slug":"2-california-cities-have-the-worst-traffic-in-us-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389534\/","title":{"rendered":"2 California cities have the worst traffic in US \u2013 and here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelenos are spending more than a full workday \u2013\u2013 8 hours and 27 minutes \u2013\u2013 in traffic every week, making it the city with the worst traffic in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be the City of Angels, but traffic in Los Angeles can be downright devilish,\u201d reads the latest report by Consumer Affairs<\/a> that ranked America\u2019s 50 most populous cities on commute times, traffic congestion, and fatal crash rates. LA climbed up from last year\u2019s number 2 rank on the list.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The LA Metro D Line Extension delivers the first major phase of a traffic-free rail alternative. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"LA<\/p>\n

LA commuters face the daily grind as school and office schedules create peak-hour gridlock. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Angelenos are spending 36 minutes more per week than last year stuck in traffic with an average daily commute time around 30 minutes \u2013\u2013 the sixth highest daily commute in the US.<\/p>\n

LA\u2019s traffic-choked streets are getting a desperate lifeline. The city is betting on the May 2026 Metro D Line subway extension to finally cut the soul-crushing commute between DTLA and the Westside \u2014 a mad dash to get traffic under control ahead of some 2026 Soccer World Cup games and 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Washington DC is ranked at number 2 with commuters spending 6 hours and 27 minutes weekly in traffic, followed by New York City, San Francisco and Houston, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\"Traffic<\/p>\n

Traffic delays cost the average LA driver both extra fuel and their peace of mind. Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the nation\u2019s capital, commuters face an average travel time of 33 minutes to reach their destination. Despite people opting to look at alternatives to cars for travel, the capital city continues to have frustrating traffic.<\/p>\n

For the Big Apple, experts estimated that the total distance logged by cars across the five boroughs \u2014 a metric signaling the density of gridlock \u2014 has increased by roughly 16% from 2005 to 2023, the report said.<\/p>\n

Rochester in New York, Missouri\u2019s St. Louis and Oklahoma City have the least crowded roads in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelenos are spending more than a full workday \u2013\u2013 8 hours and 27 minutes \u2013\u2013 in traffic every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,105586,12167,47,74860],"class_list":["post-389534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-city-of-angels","tag-getty-images","tag-los-angeles","tag-traffic-congestion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}