Worse than LA? Impressive!
Indeed. I'll have you know that it took the hard-Left Socialist micromanagers of Seattle and Washington State governments billions of tax dollars to achieve this impressive ranking position over the endless objections of Conservatives who told them that HOV lanes oftentimes increase congestion rather than decrease it, building the Convention Center over the freeway is going to doom the entire region to awful traffic for the next hundred years and their 'light rail' projects will dramatically increase surface street congestion as well while failing to take any measurable number of people out of their cars.
All of this was foretold decades ago and the Seattle Left, in a breathless race 'to be more like New York, Paris and San Francisco' of course derided all objectors as 'neanderthals' or worse.
"sigh"
No WAY is it worse than LA. I drove through LA at 6am many years ago (on my way to start a trip across the country), and sat in stop and go traffic for 1.5 hours. I’ve never encountered something like that in Seattle. Not once.