Why is Honolulu never included in US studies of commute times (worst traffic)?
It's a joke, and not funny. The "worst" one according to their study is Los Angeles with 72 hrs/year stuck in traffic. I know for a fact the typical commuter who works in Honolulu and lives in leeward Oahu would be stuck in traffic at least one hour per day, which would be something like 200 hours per year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/us_nm/traffic_usa_study_dc_1
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Answer 1 :
It is a lot like Dog years. Forty Years in Honolulu can feel like four years while four years in *fill in your 'favorite urban area' feels like forty years. Therefore 72 Hrs choking on the LA smog is far worse than 200 hours. But yea somewhere Hawai'i gets in the nationals and Hawai'i manages to hover in either the top ten or the lower ten never in the middle on any given statistic be it thong wearing Lesbian Cryptno-Fascist voting for Bush or most enjoyable commutte. Peace er ah Aloha PS // these canned stats are amusing within the same calender year I swear I heard Atlanta had exceeded LA.. Here on O'ahu they usually sneak Honolulu in fifth or eight 'worse' depending on which state is sponsoring the survey...
Answer 2 :
We are not listed because even though Honolulu is the capital of a US state, we don't count as a major city and therefore would not be included in their surveys. I totally agree with you though.....traffic here is terrible! I'm happy I don't have to commute to town every day to go to work! Too many 2 driver households have more than 2 cars and we there is only a small population of carpoolers.
Answer 3 :
Mainland bias, that's why. I'm a "townie" myself so I never have to deal with that much traffic. But I see the "fed-up" in the faces of my co-workers who commute from Aiea/Millilani/Waipahu/Kapolei, they have to be out of the house by 5AM, and they get home from work like around 6PM.
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