Yes true at all . Places exist outside of Los AngelesBetween 1938 and 1950 , National City Lines and its subsidiaries , American City Lines and Pacific City Lineswith investment from GM , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California through a subsidiary , Federal Engineering , Phillips Petroleum , and Mack Trucksgained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities . Systems included St . Louis , Baltimore , Los Angeles , and Oakland . Also , Pacific Electric the Redcar was just one line . from many that GM did systematically destroy . Data is beautiful momentThe top 10 cities in the U . S . with the worst traffic rank in terms of average time wasted per commuter , according to INRIX , areLos Angeles 81 hours . Washington , D . C . 75 hours . San Francisco 75 hours . Houston 74 hours . New York 73 hours . Seattle 66 hours . Boston 64 hours . Chicago 60 hours . trafficisgettingworsetop 10 . html