coincidentally this popped up today
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...d-10960858.php
San Francisco, with most of the rest of the Bay Area, is the fourth-most-congested metropolitan area in the world, and third worst in the United States, according to a new survey.
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The survey was conducted by Inrix, a Seattle company that provides traffic information worldwide. It releases congestion studies annually, calculating how much time drivers lose because of slow-moving traffic.
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Most-congested major world cities
1. Los Angeles
2. Moscow
3. New York
4. San Francisco