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Slow Motion.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Transportation: What this country needs is a few more roads. More pavement won't bring quick relief to every commuter, but it's better than none at all.
None at all, though, is what rush-hour motorists tend to get when it comes to relief. The Texas Transportation Institute's latest urban mobility study, released last month, shows commuters' plight is getting worse across the country.
Los Angeles is the most bottlenecked city of them all, with the San Francisco-Oakland area in second place. L.A. motorists waste an estimated 136 hours a year from delays due to subnormal travel speeds at peak commuting times. The cost in lost time and wasted fuel was put at $2,510 for each peak-hour traveler in Los Angeles.
The trend has been toward greater congestion ever since the institute, affiliated with Texas A&M, started the mobility studies in the early 1980s. For all cities studied, delays per traveler rose an average of 46 hours between 1982 and 2000 (the latest average is 62 hours), and they rose 1.6 hours a year between 1994 and 2000.
The institute's work has been criticized for not ...
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