The District now ranks a respectable 12th in traffic congestion, down from fifth in 2019.

Last year, drivers in the region spent 61 hours in traffic.

Only New York City “beat” us, according to a WalletHub ranking.

Now D.C. has the ninth-worst traffic.

The future of I-66 looks bleak unless new travel options are explored: commuters could face up to 10 hours of daily congestion.

The Washington area’s roadways are so clogged, that people who take 30 minute drives to work spend about 80 extra hours in their cars every year because of the bad traffic.

In yet more evidence that there’s a lot of traffic in the region, a study by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Transportation Planning Board has found that driving to any of our local airports is taking a lot longer these days.

A new survey from the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board shows that congestion in the D.C. region is “significantly” worse than in 2008.

Seventy-four hours. Thirty-seven gallons of gas. Almost $1,500 a year. That’s the individual cost of congestion in the Washington, D.C. metro area according to the 2011 Urban Mobility Study published by the Texas Transportation Institute.

The Daily Beast has compiled a new list of the worst commutes in the country, and the Capital Beltway, especially the Southbound area near Exit 2A-B, has come in at Number 3. Sounds about right. Only the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles and the Lunalilo Freeway in Honolulu rank as worse in terms of bottlenecks and hours per week of congestion. The order was based on the peak hour Travel Time Index for the metropolitan…