Traffic sucked in Seattle when I left there six years ago. I just visited a couple months ago. It’s a nightmare now. It’s gotten significantly worse.
I have lived north of Seattle for 40 years. The commute to downtown used to be 35 minutes, now I allow two hours if I have a meeting scheduled down in Seattle.
Amazon has made it considerably worse with its campus just north of Seattle causing the rest of us to compete with the Amazon workers every morning.
I was blown away by how bad Mercer by Huitar Center had gotten this summer.