In August 2015, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and data firm Inrix jointly released the Urban Mobility Scorecard, an assessment of cities in the US in terms of traffic congestion. With 82 hours of delay per commuter recorded on average during the prior full year, Washington, DC edged out Los Angeles (80 hours) and San Francisco (78 hours) as the nation’s most congested city.

Comparing the total number of minutes it usually takes a worker to get from home to work in the DC area to other US metropolitan areas with similar population sizes aptly illustrates the congestion problems faced by the nation’s capital.

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