https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/22/bay-area-traffic-delays-rank-second-longest-in-nation/ > Bay Area commuters have the second toughest trek in the entire country getting to work, shopping areas, the dentist and a not-so-simple night out for a movie and maybe dinner afterward. > That’s a few conclusions of this year’s Urban Mobility Report, released Thursday by the prestigious Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) that has tracked this stuff since 1982 when Ronald Reagan was nibbling on jelly beans in the oval office and carpool lanes were almost non-existent.