Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is an emerging technology for recording vibration signals via the optical fibers buried in subsurface conduits. It has some apparent advantages compared to the traditional seismic geophones, i.e., it can acquire much denser spatial and temporal sampling of the seismic wavefield and can be deployed more easily. Considering that the usage of optical fibers in the urban environment has drawn relatively less attention aside from its functionality as a telecommunication cable, we propose to use its ability to record seismic signals to preliminarily monitor the traffic. Firstly, to solve the problems that DAS signals are prone to a variety of environmental noise and are generally of weak amplitude compared to noise, we propose a fast workflow for real-time DAS data processing, which can enhance the detection of regular car signals and suppress the other components. We conduct a DAS experiment in Hangzhou, China, a busy-traffic city that can provide us with a rich data library to validate our DAS data-processing workflow. At last, the well-processed data enable us to extract their slope and coherency attributes that can provide an estimate of real traffic situations. The one-minute (with video validations) and 24 h statistics of these attributes show that the speed and volume of car flow have significant correlations with them, which provides us with high confidence that urban DAS with robust data processing has great potential for city traffic monitoring with high precision and convenience. Additionally, it is also worth noting the limitation of this study. All the attributes are statistically analyzed based on the behaviors of a large number of cars, which is meaningful but lacking in precision. We will try to develop more quantitative processing and analyzing methods to provide precise information on individual cars in future works.