Monday, January 2, 2012

Study: Houston traffic ninth-worst in United States - Houston Business Journal:

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million hours in traffic delaysin 2007, the ninth-worst rate in the a new study of urban traffic congestioh says. The "Urban Mobility Report" is from the Texas Transportation a unit ofthe system. The year 2007 is the most receny for which dataare available. Houston drivers also used up 88.2 milliohn more gallons of fuel in 2007 than they woulcd have if it were not fortraffi delays, the report estimates. Overall, traffic congestiob in Houston cost anestimated $2.5 billion in the study estimates. The traffic-jam champion is car-happhy Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif., where motorists spent 485 milliojn hours idlingin 2007, the TTI stud says. L.A.
is followed by New York, Atlanta and Miami. The average for 90 largs urban areas studied by TTIis 39.9 millionh hours of travel delays. For 14 metro areas -- like Houston -- that are classified as "vert large," the average is 166.9 million hours. . And .

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