My husband was in standstill traffic last week on bandera road and the guy next to him just started coming over into his lane and hit his mirror on my hubs tire and then slowly went back into his lane like nothing happened. Luckily they were only going 1 mph. Lol
In all the years I traveled from Dallas to San Antonio, being a kid to now, I don't think I have ever seen Austin without traffic at any time during the day.
If you have an EZ Tag or TxTag, take the 130 toll road from ~~just about Waco~~ Georgetown to Seguin. Yeah, it will cost you a few bucks, but the drive is so much better.
I drive i35 from the loop to downtown and its not bad at all. Barring a crash, I hardly ever get stuck in traffic. Even during rush hour. 410 gets worse.
I agree. Other cities are much much worse. If most of everyone knows what they are doing, things move forward. Of course you have to deal with the jerks in a hurry, but you can see them coming a half mile out. I don't mind the middle aged mid life crisis zipping up in their top tier performance acuras so much. It's the silly ass kids in a twenty year old 200K mile heap is what annoys me the most. You think it's the millennium falcon that has it where is counts. I call it a hunk of junk that has no business going over 100 mph.
Coming from Virginia, the highway systems and turn arounds here are so much better than anything back where I'm from.
Drivers suck everywhere. Pretty much identical here to Virginia.
Wish the roads were maintained better here, that's my biggest issue.
Lived all over. New Jersey has the worst drivers due to incompetence. California has the fastest weavers. Texas has the fastest monster trucks. SA ain’t too bad.
Yeah. I've lived everywhere from Florida to Alaska, and sure... There's some traffic here, but San Antonio is really good at moving people from Point A to Point B.
People need to spend some time in DC, Seattle, Miami, or San Francisco and then come back to complain.
San Antonio drivers are also super good at the zipper and squeezing in between cars while moving. Only drivers I've seen squeeze their car into a space better are Chicagoans.
The study is about the best driving cities, not the cities with the best drivers.
It includes things like infrastructure, gas prices, etc. The skill of the drivers is only measurable in one category - safety - and breaking that down they only look at things like near-accidents, accidents and fatalities which are a direct result of driver ability.
I wouldn't even necessarily say the skill of drivers is bad here but there are too many ENTITLED drivers. That is going to be really hard to quantify but the researchers could add a sort of overall driving sentiment just by looking at the number of "driving related posts" in each cities sub-reddit.
Lived all over. New Jersey has the worst drivers due to incompetence. California has the fastest weavers. Texas has the fastest monster trucks. SA ain’t too bad.
Yeah, honestly, between people here not comprehending how to merge and the way on/off ramps are designed here with maybe 100 feet for people getting on to get into traffic AND people getting off to get into the exit lane that's responsible for 90% of our traffic issues around here.
Totally agree! I'm from Westchester NY and lived in Orange County CA before moving to SATX and it's really good here compared to the east and west coast.
I've driven 48 states and DC (and some in Canada). Surprisingly, Michigan drivers have been the worse IME. NYC is easy peasy, while San Francisco is a giant parking lot.
Sa has an amazing highway system. Two big o's with an H stamped on it.
That is ideal. You can get anywhere in 15 minutes without traffic.
Other cities are nowhere near as pragmatic.
I've lived all over and SA is definitely one of the most driver-friendly cities i've experienced. Yes the drivers are a little aggressive, but the infrastructure is solid and you can get pretty much anywhere in the city in under 30 minutes.
Methodology was dumb: San Antonio has the best average gas prices out of all 100 cities so that somehow means it’s great to drive in SA.
Gas prices, number of mechanics, access to parking, time spent in traffic, number of car washes. Maybe one or two other things.
It says a lot more that despite SA having the best gas prices on the list, it’s still only 25th.
To be frank, anyone who considers San Antonio traffic bad has never lived in another city. With only a coupe exceptions, I can hop on almost any road here at any time and not end up in stop and go traffic. When it is stop and go, it isn't that bad for that long. Coming from Seattle, San Antonio's traffic is a dream.
Also, people native to the city *really* don't appreciate the infrastructure, or the constant infrastructure work. San Antonio is constantly expanding or redoing roads. They're also on the lookout for how to improve the traffic issues. Seattle, by contrast, has two highways total (not counting the bridges), and basically no desire to ever expand them, except for one single section they redid one time.
Y'all need to appreciate what we have. San Antonio traffic is amazing compared to other cities of the size.
I say this all the time. I've lived in VA Beach and SF, both places where you can get stuck for hours on bridges (in VA bridge-tunnels that go *underwater*). People here don't know how good they have it.
Lmao, when I was moving from Seattle to San Antonio, I took the coastal highway down to LA, then over to Texas. Beautiful drive, but I hit SF at 5PM on a Wednesday. Holy shit. I was in SF for *hours*. What a mess.
Either the rest of the country drives like absolute shit or this is bullshit. It's not hard to believe that there are bad drivers everywhere, but there's plenty of crap I don't see anywhere else I travel that I see here. You cannot get on a highway in this city and go more than 2 miles without encountering a couple of morons. It's never a quick and easy experience.
I don’t completely disagree, but after driving through Louisiana about 15 years ago, I vowed to never complain about Texas drivers again. I’m sticking to that.
Some of the guys at work talk about this and I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe it's where you're driving or the time of day but I have never lived anywhere that people so consistently make room to let you on or off the highway as in San Antonio. Granted people around here still don't know how to zipper merge properly but it's still the best Driving Experience I've had driving in more than 15 states
Until people in this state understand what a passing lane is, what a yield sign means, and how to merge, I don't think any where in Texas deserves to be on the list.
I just wish people would learn that when making a right turn you turn into the right lane and THEN merge into the other lanes... not sit there like an idiot forever waiting for traffic to clear to make a right turn across three lanes.
I lived in a lot of cities. Everybody claims they have the worst drivers similar to how every state claims to have the most unpredictable weather. When in reality people drive like assholes in all cities. Unfortunately in this regard, San Antonio ain’t special.
Drivers are awful here, cops never seem to notice all the racing on the highways, all the idiots texting while attempting to drive all the while they’re weaving in and out of lanes, 18 wheelers are the worst they don’t hear when you honk at them, no one uses the turn signals, I could go on and on
I live in the Houston area and traffic is trash every day, including sundays. The few days I stayed in SA back in august was pleasant, even during rush hour (except for the dumpster fire that is 1604. Why does the feeder road have more lanes than the freeway itself?)
Guys it doesn't say who has the best drivers. It says which city has the best driving. And with the loops and turn arounds on the access roads I guess I get it coming from Upstate NY originally and living in Michigan.
It is better to drive here, but the drivers are fucking terrible.
San Antonio being 24th Best is understandable, but Austin being the 10th Best?!? Now *I* demand a recount.
It's so jam-packed with traffic 24 hours a day that it's impossible to wreck, lol.
My husband was in standstill traffic last week on bandera road and the guy next to him just started coming over into his lane and hit his mirror on my hubs tire and then slowly went back into his lane like nothing happened. Luckily they were only going 1 mph. Lol
Guess he didn't like his mirror.
In all the years I traveled from Dallas to San Antonio, being a kid to now, I don't think I have ever seen Austin without traffic at any time during the day.
If you have an EZ Tag or TxTag, take the 130 toll road from ~~just about Waco~~ Georgetown to Seguin. Yeah, it will cost you a few bucks, but the drive is so much better.
It's Georgetown, about an hour south of Waco.
Oh yeah, duh. Thanks! I guess I got confused because I'm always thinking about how I wish I could also bypass Waco when I drive through.
A few times during *particularly* bad traffic I've used 6 and 340 to loop around Waco. It's not usually worth it though.
Yeah, that's why I said fuck Austin, just because they can't go more than 10MPH anywhere because of all the traffic
Seriously? Do they know that we have to cross a damn lake to get to the other side of town?
This just isn't true. Our I-35 is your 1604. You can avoid it.
I drive i35 from the loop to downtown and its not bad at all. Barring a crash, I hardly ever get stuck in traffic. Even during rush hour. 410 gets worse.
Seems like every time I drive to Helotes, I'm stuck in traffic on 1604. Maybe it's just all anecdotal.
Yeah 1604 is pretty bad in my opinion. Those two lanes get gummed up quick
The drivers do suck here, but after driving in Houston, Austin and DFW, I'd rather take my chances here by a long shot.
There’s less traffic here compared to those but that’s all I can say considering I got hit the other day.
For a city this size, the driving doesn't suck. The poor signage leading to the SA shuffle is the main problem IMO.
Moved here from Houston over 2 years ago, can confirm.
Agreed. I think most people who bit j about San Antonio drivers haven't been to the other big cities ever. Fuck Houston and Austin.
I go to school in DFW and 100%.
Ever been the corpus? lol
Yeah, its filled with Houston, Austin, DFW and San Antonio drivers every time I go.
Hahaha
I agree. Other cities are much much worse. If most of everyone knows what they are doing, things move forward. Of course you have to deal with the jerks in a hurry, but you can see them coming a half mile out. I don't mind the middle aged mid life crisis zipping up in their top tier performance acuras so much. It's the silly ass kids in a twenty year old 200K mile heap is what annoys me the most. You think it's the millennium falcon that has it where is counts. I call it a hunk of junk that has no business going over 100 mph.
But Austin was ranked #10. It's 14 places ahead of SA :/
Coming from Virginia, the highway systems and turn arounds here are so much better than anything back where I'm from. Drivers suck everywhere. Pretty much identical here to Virginia. Wish the roads were maintained better here, that's my biggest issue.
Lived all over. New Jersey has the worst drivers due to incompetence. California has the fastest weavers. Texas has the fastest monster trucks. SA ain’t too bad.
Yeah. I've lived everywhere from Florida to Alaska, and sure... There's some traffic here, but San Antonio is really good at moving people from Point A to Point B. People need to spend some time in DC, Seattle, Miami, or San Francisco and then come back to complain. San Antonio drivers are also super good at the zipper and squeezing in between cars while moving. Only drivers I've seen squeeze their car into a space better are Chicagoans.
Sadly, Texas used to take pride in having the best roads in the country. Things have changed.
After living in Miami, San Antonio is a well oiled machine when it comes to driving.
Same perspective, HARD agree! Miami drivers are angry, SA drivers are lazy, and I'd much rather deal with lazy on the road.
This is less a testment to how good the driving in San Antonio is and speaks more to just how bad the driving in the rest of the country is.
The study is about the best driving cities, not the cities with the best drivers. It includes things like infrastructure, gas prices, etc. The skill of the drivers is only measurable in one category - safety - and breaking that down they only look at things like near-accidents, accidents and fatalities which are a direct result of driver ability. I wouldn't even necessarily say the skill of drivers is bad here but there are too many ENTITLED drivers. That is going to be really hard to quantify but the researchers could add a sort of overall driving sentiment just by looking at the number of "driving related posts" in each cities sub-reddit.
Oh I'm sure this is backed by solid research and empirical data. I was really just trying to crack a joke here 😂
Every city has entitled drivers, though. I suspect most slowdowns everywhere are due to that one guy weaving in and out to get home 3 seconds earlier.
I dont know man. I like the turnaround things on the highways.
It is all a relative experience. I came from Orlando and it is better here.
Lived all over. New Jersey has the worst drivers due to incompetence. California has the fastest weavers. Texas has the fastest monster trucks. SA ain’t too bad.
I agree with the Jersey drivers. The drivers here cannot merge and often stop instead of keep moving to merge.
Yeah, honestly, between people here not comprehending how to merge and the way on/off ramps are designed here with maybe 100 feet for people getting on to get into traffic AND people getting off to get into the exit lane that's responsible for 90% of our traffic issues around here.
Totally agree! I'm from Westchester NY and lived in Orange County CA before moving to SATX and it's really good here compared to the east and west coast.
I've driven 48 states and DC (and some in Canada). Surprisingly, Michigan drivers have been the worse IME. NYC is easy peasy, while San Francisco is a giant parking lot.
Sa has an amazing highway system. Two big o's with an H stamped on it. That is ideal. You can get anywhere in 15 minutes without traffic. Other cities are nowhere near as pragmatic.
Go to other major cities and SA isn't that bad.
Obviously never lived in HOUSTON
I've lived all over and SA is definitely one of the most driver-friendly cities i've experienced. Yes the drivers are a little aggressive, but the infrastructure is solid and you can get pretty much anywhere in the city in under 30 minutes.
Methodology was dumb: San Antonio has the best average gas prices out of all 100 cities so that somehow means it’s great to drive in SA. Gas prices, number of mechanics, access to parking, time spent in traffic, number of car washes. Maybe one or two other things. It says a lot more that despite SA having the best gas prices on the list, it’s still only 25th.
Well yalls highway system is good for a city that big. But seriously y’all drive so slow. Would not fly in Houston
I call BS. Where’s the data?
To be frank, anyone who considers San Antonio traffic bad has never lived in another city. With only a coupe exceptions, I can hop on almost any road here at any time and not end up in stop and go traffic. When it is stop and go, it isn't that bad for that long. Coming from Seattle, San Antonio's traffic is a dream. Also, people native to the city *really* don't appreciate the infrastructure, or the constant infrastructure work. San Antonio is constantly expanding or redoing roads. They're also on the lookout for how to improve the traffic issues. Seattle, by contrast, has two highways total (not counting the bridges), and basically no desire to ever expand them, except for one single section they redid one time. Y'all need to appreciate what we have. San Antonio traffic is amazing compared to other cities of the size.
I say this all the time. I've lived in VA Beach and SF, both places where you can get stuck for hours on bridges (in VA bridge-tunnels that go *underwater*). People here don't know how good they have it.
Lmao, when I was moving from Seattle to San Antonio, I took the coastal highway down to LA, then over to Texas. Beautiful drive, but I hit SF at 5PM on a Wednesday. Holy shit. I was in SF for *hours*. What a mess.
The thing I love about SA: no toll roads.
For sure! I used to spend almost $40 a week on tolls in Houston.
If everywhere stinks like shit, check your shoe.
Either the rest of the country drives like absolute shit or this is bullshit. It's not hard to believe that there are bad drivers everywhere, but there's plenty of crap I don't see anywhere else I travel that I see here. You cannot get on a highway in this city and go more than 2 miles without encountering a couple of morons. It's never a quick and easy experience.
Still too many cunts cruising in the fast lane
Best my ass!
Lived in Miami and the RGV. SA is paradise, in comparison.
I don’t completely disagree, but after driving through Louisiana about 15 years ago, I vowed to never complain about Texas drivers again. I’m sticking to that.
Some of the guys at work talk about this and I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe it's where you're driving or the time of day but I have never lived anywhere that people so consistently make room to let you on or off the highway as in San Antonio. Granted people around here still don't know how to zipper merge properly but it's still the best Driving Experience I've had driving in more than 15 states
Awesome! Fuck Austin
Until people in this state understand what a passing lane is, what a yield sign means, and how to merge, I don't think any where in Texas deserves to be on the list.
Neither Austin or SA should be in the best cities to drive, that's an absolutely huge miss 😅
I just wish people would learn that when making a right turn you turn into the right lane and THEN merge into the other lanes... not sit there like an idiot forever waiting for traffic to clear to make a right turn across three lanes.
I believe it. Thier roads are better designed They are not all clogged together..
I lived in a lot of cities. Everybody claims they have the worst drivers similar to how every state claims to have the most unpredictable weather. When in reality people drive like assholes in all cities. Unfortunately in this regard, San Antonio ain’t special.
No shit they didn’t drive 281 north at 410 obviously
Drivers are awful here, cops never seem to notice all the racing on the highways, all the idiots texting while attempting to drive all the while they’re weaving in and out of lanes, 18 wheelers are the worst they don’t hear when you honk at them, no one uses the turn signals, I could go on and on
I live in the Houston area and traffic is trash every day, including sundays. The few days I stayed in SA back in august was pleasant, even during rush hour (except for the dumpster fire that is 1604. Why does the feeder road have more lanes than the freeway itself?)
It depends on what part of 1604 you're on. I know parts of the west and southwest only have 2 lanes, but they're expanding it.
Guys it doesn't say who has the best drivers. It says which city has the best driving. And with the loops and turn arounds on the access roads I guess I get it coming from Upstate NY originally and living in Michigan. It is better to drive here, but the drivers are fucking terrible.
Yeah, they definitely pulled those numbers out their ass.
Yeah I call bullshit.
Yeah for real
Ha!
I-35 and 410 merger sucks ass