I'm saying that big "brand name" cities that everyone has heard of are a clusterfuck with regard to traffic (and whatever public transit they have is equally bad). Many of the medium and small cities that compose a large amount of the population don't have this problem. Except for the state capitals, Worcester, New Haven and maybe a couple others you'd be hard pressed to be in traffic for more than 30min in Southern New England unless your commute involves the same routes in the same directions as the commuter traffic from those cities. For example, if you left work at 5pm in Lowell or Fall River traffic conditions on your way to wherever you're going would be fine by 5:30. In northern New England the only way to be stuck in traffic is to travel on a Friday or Sunday afternoon in the summer in which case the roads will be full of Massholes but one could make the argument that you're really just in Boston traffic in that case. Maybe if you get out of work in Marlboro and need to take the highway in the same direction as all the Boston traffic you could be in traffic for more than 30min but once again I'd argue that you're really just sitting in Boston traffic.

Yeah unfortunately some dumbass built all the roads so they go through multiple cities.