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Originally Posted by akack79

I currently live in Austin so well aware how rush hour traffic is here. Traffic in Austin is bad for a city of its size, and you'll be hard pressed to find another metro area similar in size (~2.5 million) with worse traffic.

However any metro area will have traffic during rush hour, but traffic in SoCal is on a whole different level.
From sunrise to well into the evening, the highways are packed in LA. If traffic in LA was like how traffic is in Aus, I can't imagine how much more people will live in LA (assuming one can stomach the cost of living there ).

But generally, traffic moves in LA, barring an accident. That's not the case in Austin where things slow to a crawl at rush hour. The 5 and 405 are both functioning roads. I-35 and Mopac are generally just parking lots. And those are the easy routes, the east west roads are just silly and generally not highways.

Sure, the number of cars on LA roads is much greater than here in Austin, but the average speed has to be wildly higher for anything but the 10 heading into or out of Santa Monica. That about the only road I can think of that acted like Austin roads at rush hour.