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Headings: Rush Hour: A Map Of Puget Sound’s Worst Traffic
Rush Hour: A Map Of Puget Sound’s Worst Traffic
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‘Lots Of Moves’
No Design Workaround
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Content: The traffic data company INRIX says even before the recent spate of bad luck, Seattle-area drivers were spending 38 hours a year in their cars – four more hours than in 2012. Click on the highlighted parts of the map to see rush hour and "free flow" commute times: ‘Lots Of Moves’
The worst commute in the Puget Sound region is I-5 from Northgate to Union Street in downtown Seattle. That stretch of highway is at its worst during the afternoon commute. This route on I-5 presents a special difficulty to the state’s highway department. The Washington State Department of Transportation has made improvements to Interstate 405 in Bellevue to make it a less-congested drive. But I-5 from Northgate is different. Just south of Northeast 65th Street, three lanes start to spit a large volume of cars onto the highway, one on the left and two on the right. The two lanes on the right – the Northeast 50th and 45th Street exits – create a choke-point because some of the merging cars are headed for the State Route 520, accessible by a left-sided exit just past the Ship Canal Bridge. Those drivers – most of them headed for the Eastside – must cut across four lanes of traffic and the result is a slowdown felt clear past Northgate, four miles away.