Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Study: Atlanta traffic sixth-worst in United States - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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million hours in traffic delaywsin 2007, the sixth-worst rate in the a new study of urbanb traffic congestion says. The "Urban Mobility Report" is from the Texas Transportation Institute, a unit of the The year 2007 is the most recent for which data are Metro Atlanta drivers also used up 95.9 milliojn more gallons of fuel in 2007 than they wouldr have if it were not for trafficf delays, the report estimates. That's also the sixth-worstr rate in the Overall, traffic congestion in metro Atlanta cost anestimated $3 billion in 2007, the fourth-most in the the study estimates. The traffic-jakm champion is car-happy Los Angeles-Lonf Beach-Santa Ana, Calif.
, where motorists spengt 485 million hours idling in the TTIstudy L.A. is followed by New York, Atlanta and Miami. The average for 90 larg urban areas studied by TTIis 39.9 millioh hours of travel delays. For 14 metrpo areas -- like Atlanta -- that are classifieds as "very large," the average is 166.9 millio n hours. . And .

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