In Austin, it's a constant: Traffic.
罢丑别谤别鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;and to mitigate congestion 鈥� which will take substantial investment and extensive construction. So despite proposals in the pipeline, traffic will continue to be a slow-going, .
So, it got us wondering: What are the worst intersections in Austin?
We've compiled data from social media, via and , as well as some city data to attempt to make sense of Austin鈥檚 white-knuckle, stop-and-go madness. The red markers indicate the top 25 crash sites in Austin, as Transportation Department and , while the blue markers indicate intersections and exchanges suggested by social media. Keep in mind, top crash markers indicate only a small number of total reported crashes, which totaled 15,011.
The brunt of the user-suggested intersections focused on major thoroughfares, which, to our surprise, weren't a majority of Austin's 78 traffic fatalities last year: according to the city data, 60 percent of fatalities occurred within local streets, as opposed to the 15 percent that occurred on I-35 and the 25 percent that occurred on MoPac, U.S. Hwy. 183, U.S. Hwy. 290 and SH 71 combined.
While we tried to gather congestion data 鈥� longest wait times, the most consistent traffic 鈥� the city is still working on that data with the UT Center for Transportation Research. Jen Duthie, a researcher at the center, says a partnership with the city could yield such data in the near future after the center recently .
"We're looking at embarking on a big initiative with the city," says Duthie. "But right now we don't have a good quantitative sense of congestion."
Any suggestions? Let us know in the comments and we'll update the map.
