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I was sitting in traffic the other day, which is a fairly common occurrence to those that live in Atlanta.\u00a0 Whenever this occurs, inevitably, I, or someone like Jen often asks \u201cwhy is it always this bad?\u201d\u00a0 The question is pretty redundant, because we all know the answer to it, but it\u2019s partially frustration and partially the fact that there\u2019s really nothing else to say when you\u2019re stuck in suffocating Atlanta gridlock.<\/span><\/p>\n Aside from the sheer lack of surface streets leading to a massive reliance on the highways, if you were to ask me, I\u2019d tell you that the biggest problem causing Atlanta traffic is simply Interstate 20, which slices neatly through the middle of Atlanta, going east-west.\u00a0 At three points in the Atlanta highway system does I-20 intersect, and at any given point during the day (or night), those will inevitably be the worst points of traffic.\u00a0 The I-85\/I-75 connector probably gets it the worst in both directions on a daily basis, but the west intersection of I-285 and I-20 is notorious for predictably horrific traffic, especially for those traveling southbound; it\u2019s incredible how people needing to travel westbound on I-20 manage to choke out and congest four lanes across 10 miles of roadway on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Basically, I have a belief that if I-20 did not directly intersect through the entire City of Atlanta, a massive part of congestion would be alleviated.\u00a0 Instead, have I-20 cease at I-285, and route all east-west traffic through the southern half of I-285 that is substantially less utilized, where drivers have the option to resume driving on I-20 in the desired direction.\u00a0 Sure, this only necessarily clears up one of the major daily choke points, but considering the connector is two interstates merged into one for 17 miles, they kind of get priority over a \u201cbypass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that I blame the existence of I-20 as the root of the vast majority of the daily crippling traffic of the Metro Atlanta area.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I began contemplating the traffic issues of other cities, because nowadays I can honestly say that I\u2019ve been to quite a few major cities throughout the country, and I guess I\u2019m somewhat proud in having made up for a lot of lost time as a kid and become kind of well-traveled.\u00a0 And while thinking about other cities that I\u2019ve been to, it got me wondering if there were any other cities that had a road system to Atlanta\u2019s, where it has major interstates intersecting right in the dead fucking center of the entire city?<\/span><\/p>\n And the answer to appears to be that there are a lot of cities that appear to have\u00a0some<\/em>\u00a0intersecting highways within their respective metropolitan areas, few of them have them located smack dab in the center of the city.\u00a0 Also, lots of these major cities are also coastal to some degree, whether they\u2019re on the Atlantic, Pacific, or along a Great Lake, like Chicago.\u00a0 The presence of water is pretty sufficient at ending a highway where it stands.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been to Houston yet, but looking at their road system on Google Maps shows that they\u2019re very similar to Atlanta, with major highways intersecting north-south as well as east-west.\u00a0 But unlike Atlanta, they\u2019ve apparently got\u00a0two<\/em>\u00a0bypass highways that encircle their general metro populous; needless to say, it\u2019s no surprise\u00a0seeing Houston appear on the list of some of the worst traffic in the country<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, there are no more times when I say \u201cI hate this city,\u201d than when I\u2019m in the car sitting in slammed traffic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t necessarily mean it, but it really does get frustrating sometimes.\u00a0 It\u2019s like there\u2019s nothing planned about the roadways all throughout the city and surrounding areas, and that it\u2019s instead planned on the fly like WCW used to be, or how Mortal Kombat story continuity writers make shit up on the spot.\u00a0 I always thought bypasses were supposed to be just that, roads kind of out of the way meant to be expedient alternate routes to avoiding inner city traffic, but in the case of the northern part of I-285, it\u2019s fully developed into Sandy Springs, and causes equally, if not worse traffic on the bypass than in the rest of the city, downtown.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, traffic is one of those certainties in life to be added to the old adage of death and taxes, and no amount of contemplation and talking about it is ever going to solve anything.\u00a0 But for the sake of conversation, and sharing opinions, I simply conclude that the existence of I-20 is the root of all the traffic evil in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was sitting in traffic the other day, which is a fairly common occurrence to those that live in Atlanta.\u00a0 Whenever this occurs, inevitably, I, or someone like Jen often asks \u201cwhy is it always this bad?\u201d\u00a0 The question is pretty redundant, because we all know the answer to it, but it\u2019s partially frustration and … Continue reading Are there any other cities like this?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,143,10],"class_list":["post-38011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38013,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions\/38013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}