If you approach the District every morning via the I-270 Interchange at the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, you probably let an impressive barrage of expletives escape your lips on a daily basis about how bad a bottleneck the meeting of those two highways are. Luckily, Forbes magazine is here to tell you, you’re not alone. Via WTOP, we learn today that the interchange in question has once again been named the 7th worst bottleneck in the country, resulting in a total of 19 million hours of delays every year. The full list of 12 goes like this:

1. Los Angeles: U.S. 101 and I-405 Interchange
2. Houston: I-610 and I-10 Interchange
3. Chicago: I-90/94 and I-290 Interchange
4. Phoenix: I-10 and S.R.-51 Interchange
5. Los Angeles: I-405 and I-10 Interchange
6. Atlanta: I-75 and I-85 Interchange
7. D.C.: I-495 and I-270 Interchange
8. Los Angeles: I-10 and I-5 Interchange
9. Los Angeles: I-405 and I-605 Interchange
10. Atlanta: I-285 and I-85 Interchange
11. Chicago: I-94 and I-90 Interchange
12. Phoenix: I-17 and I-10 Interchange

As a former resident of Los Angeles, I can testify to the accuracy of listing all four of those L.A. bottlenecks in the top ten. But as a convert to a car-less D.C. lifestyle, I can’t say I’ve spent hardly any time at all stuck in traffic on the Beltway in this area. So, commuters, here’s your chance to vent in the comments. Tell us what it’s like for you to get to work every day, and be vivid.

Not angry enough? Perhaps this will tempt you more: the Forbes story reminds us that the D.C. metro area was not one of the nine semi-finalists to be named last week for a federal program that will provide a total of $1.1 billion to fight traffic jams. The cities being considered instead are Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.

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