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Measurably false, LA has the worst traffic in the world.

>The average [LA] driver wasted 104 hours sitting in gridlock.... New York motorists spent 89 hours on average...San Francisco...83 hours on average in 2016.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/02/20/los-angeles-n...

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Not sure this is measuring the same thing.

For example, if I moved to NYC I wouldn't even bother buying a car because the traffic is so bad. I'd spend 0 hours in gridlock per year, but the traffic is still terrible.

Not if you're driving over a bridge during rush hour. There's plenty of gridlock in NYC. It's on this list.

Owning a car in NYC is mostly prohibited by cost (including parking), vs taking the subway

You then proceed to list only US cities to back up your claim, disregading GP's point that other countries have much, much worse traffic in their biggest cities.

>in the world

The article mentions Moscow as the second-worst city for traffic

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