On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I was driving from LAX to Palm Springs. Almost every freeway I drove on had five to eight lanes in each direction. Amazing! By comparison, I live in Portland, Oregon, where most of the freeways only have three lanes on each side.

I got to wondering, if you put all of Portland's freeways into L.A., how much of the L.A. freeway system would it actually fill up?

So, I decided to visualize this on a map.

Choose your city from the list below and see how it stacks up.

Atlanta Baltimore Bend, OR Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas-Fort Worth Denver Detroit Eugene, OR Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis-St. Paul New Orleans New York Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Riverside-San Bernardino Sacramento Salem, OR San Antonio San Diego San Francisco-Oakland San Jose Seattle Spokane, WA St. Louis Tampa-St. Petersburg Virginia Beach Washington, DC

The metropolitan area has lane miles of freeway, which is of the freeways in LA.