The good news? Traffic didn’t get any worse last year than it was in 2016. The bad news? It didn’t get any better, either.

That’s according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s annual top 10 congested corridor list. The regional transportation planning agency annually compiles a ranking of the worst routes around the Bay Area to drive during peak commute times, tracking changes over time.

Holding onto the top position for the fourth year in a row is the evening Bay Bridge commute out of San Francisco into the East Bay. Meanwhile, in the opposite direction is the second-worst slog: the commute along Interstate 80 from Hercules to the Bay Bridge toll plaza, which has the dubious distinction of being a truly unrelenting grind. It’s crowded all day, every weekday, from about 5:25 a.m. to 6:55 p.m. — with no mid-day relief.

Commuters spent an average 3.6 minutes per day last year crawling along at speeds lower than 35 mph, matching the historic high set in 2016, according to the MTC. All told, the time people spend sitting in traffic increased 65 percent since 2000 — and 80 percent since the recession-era lows of 2010 — even though the Bay Area’s population grew only 15 percent since 2000 and the number of jobs increased by just 12 percent.

A number of factors contribute to the growing traffic congestion, said John Goodwin, a spokesman for the MTC, but none so prominent as the lopsided growth of jobs and housing, with job growth concentrated in the urban core of the Bay Area and housing growing mostly along its outer fringes or beyond its borders. The nine-county Bay Area added 458,103 jobs between 2013 and 2017, but permitted only 112,910 new housing units, according to data from the Bay Area Council.

“More people are travelling further,” he said. “It’s by far the biggest factor.”

It doesn’t help that as people move farther away, transit options become scarcer, or that as incomes grow, people tend to opt for cars over buses. So, it’s no surprise, Goodwin said, that eight of the 10 worst commutes start or end in San Francisco or Silicon Valley, the region’s two largest job centers and that commuters crossing the Bay Bridge topped the list.

Betty Cuvas, who works at a hair salon in Oakland, said she hears the stories every day: More people are moving out to the Central Valley because that’s only place they can afford to buy a home. She drives from Hayward and said it feels like traffic is getting worse.

“The morning, afternoon, it doesn’t matter. It’s getting worse,” she said. “And now there’s many more people buying houses in Modesto, Manteca. … What they going to do? You can’t build another freeway; there’s not enough land.”

Rounding out the top five worst drives is the evening commute on Highway 101 from San Francisco to the South Bay, which came in at the No. 3 slot, as it did in 2016. That’s followed by Interstate 680 in southern Alameda County for afternoon commuters leaving Silicon Valley on their way to the Tri-Valley and beyond.

Not new to the list, but a surprising jump in positions to No. 5 was the afternoon squeeze on eastbound State Route 4 in Martinez to Port Chicago Highway in Concord, Goodwin said. That corridor held the No. 10 spot in 2016.

Also surprising, he said, was the addition of Interstate 880 to No. 7 on the list for commuters heading south from Oakland in the afternoon. It was No. 14 in 2016.

“A lot of that is Port of Oakland traffic,” Goodwin said. “But, it’s yet another one of those routes leading away from the Bay Bridge in the afternoon.”

Here are the worst of them: