According to a news release, that averages out to 42 “extra” hours per rush-hour driver a year.
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But the pain reaches across the nation.
4 out of 5 cities have now surpassed their 2007 congestion.
Seattle (63 hours), Chicago (61 hours), Houston (61 hours) and Riverside-San Bernardino, California (59 hours) were in the bottom half of the top 10. The next yr, nearly all cities – 95 out of 101 – skilled higher congestion.
The findings are based on federal data about how many cars are on the roads and on traffic speed data collected by INRIX on 1.3 million miles of urban streets and highways.
The expansion is outpacing the nation’s capacity to construct the roads, bridges, trains and different infrastructure to deal with all these individuals on the transfer.
“The study shows just how transportation dependent the state and region are”. Delays cost commercial truckers even more.
“Our growing traffic problem is too massive for any one entity to handle”, Lomax said. “Maybe that helps you to understand that transit is a better option, rather than have the auto shove you toward the Beltway on a big accident day”. “We did not benefit from it and now we’re again within the soup once more”, he stated. Austin, with an average 52 hours of delays, has had a strategy for decades of not building additional roads to discourage more people from moving in, he said.
083-a-13-(Bill Eisele (EYES’-lee), senior research engineer with Texas A and M Transportation Institute, in AP interview Tuesday)-“is 78 hours”-Bill Eisele, who’s the co-author of the traffic congestion report, says in 2014, commuters in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco spent the most hours driving to and from work”.
The problem has become so bad in major urban areas that drivers have to plan more than twice as much travel time as they would need to arrive on time in light traffic just to account for the effects of irregular delays such as bad weather, collisions, and construction zones.
Here’s a price tag to go along with those frightful number: traffic congestion now costs the U.S. some $160 billion annually, or $960 per commuter.
Traffic crawls along the Capital Beltway during rush hour, in…
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The report comes on the heels of different proof that People are embracing driving greater than ever. The Department of Transportation said Americans drove more than 3 trillion miles in the last 12 months, surpassing the previous record set in 2007.
