Travelers spend more time in traffic jams (3.5B hr/yr in US alone!!!)

[Ediacara]

Travelers spend more time in traffic jams

By LESLIE MILLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- Los Angeles for years has had the nation's worst traffic jams, but these days even the streets and highways in small and medium cities from Brownsville, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, to Honolulu, Hawaii, are giving rush-hour drivers fits.

Snarled traffic is costing travelers in the 85 biggest U.S. cities a whopping 3.5 billion hours a year, up from 700 million two decades ago.

The problem worsened over the past two decades in small, medium and large cities, according to the Texas Transportation Institute's annual Urban Mobility Report released Tuesday. The institute, part of Texas A&M University, looked at data from 1982 to 2002.

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[Union Thug]

1. consider all that petro-power..

being burned while we just sit there in endless lines on the freeway.

We need a massive public transportation effort in this country.

[maxsolomon]

2. somehow, i bet traffic jams make the GDP go up

come on america, WORK HARDER!