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WORLD / America
LA drivers sit in traffic 72 hours a year
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-20 10:07
The Los Angeles metropolitan area led the United States in traffic jams
in 2005, with rush-hour drivers spending an extra 72 hours a year on
average stuck in traffic, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The metropolitan areas of San Francisco-0akland, Washington,
D.C.-Virginia-Maryland, and Atlanta were tied for the second most
gridlocked areas, according to the study by the Texas Transportation
Institute.
Drivers in those three areas spent an extra 60 hours on average during
peak periods, defined as 6 am to 9 am and 4 pm to 7 pm, the study found.
But drivers in other regions around the country were not much luckier.
The report found traffic gridlock worsened in all 437 large, medium and
small urban centers in 2005.
"What causes congestion? In a word, 'you.' Most of the Mojave Desert is
not congested," wrote report authors David Schrank, associate research
scientist, and Tim Lomax, research engineer.
In the last 20 years, travel has increased by 105 percent in metropolitan
areas but road capacity - measured by the number of freeways and major
thoroughfares built - has failed to keep pace, rising only 45 percent.
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