Leroy N. Soetoro
2016-03-17 19:05:04 UTC
American roads are inefficiently designed to impede and restrict.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/03/16/america-has-worst-traffic-in-
world/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
Gas prices are cheap. The unemployment rate is low. The population is
growing. Fueled by those factors, Americans drove more than three trillion
miles last year, according to the Federal Highway Administration, the most
since the start of the Great Recession.
But the increased economic activity comes with a downside more motorists
are stuck in traffic.
Congestion is a growing problem in most major US cities, according to
Inrix, a leading provider of real-time and predictive traffic data. The
Seattle-based company released its annual traffic scorecard Tuesday, and
found commuters in America waste more time stuck in traffic than anywhere
else in the world. The average American commuter loses an average of
nearly 50 hours a year atrophying in traffic, according to Inrix.
Depending on where you live, that number can vary greatly. Los Angeles
commuters faced the worst conditions in the country, frittering away 81
hours per year in traffic. Washington D.C. and San Francisco drivers were
next, losing an average of 75 hours.
Rounding out the American top 10: Houston (74 hours), New York (73 hours),
Seattle (66 hours), Boston (64 hours), Chicago (60 hours), Atlanta (59
hours) and Honolulu (49 hours). Worldwide, Londoners faced the worst
traffic, wasting 101 hours per year idling in their cars. But American
cities claimed the next five spots. Overall, US commuters wasted 8 billion
hours in traffic, according to Inrix.
It's going to get worse. An estimated 70 million more people will be
competing for space on highways over the next 30 years, according to
federal estimates. During the same period, DOT projections indicate there
will be 65 percent more trucks on American roads.
Transportation officials have begun to re-think their approach to dealing
with urban congestion. In December, the DOT kicked off the "Smart City
Challenge," a national competition that offers $40 million in federal
money as a prize to a single city that presents the most innovative plan
for reconfiguring its future around sustainable and shared transportation
options while incorporating the use of data solutions.
"As a society, we don't value our time at all," said Seval Oz, head of
Continental's business unit for intelligent transportation systems. "We
haven't thought about what it costs us to sit in traffic. I love to drive,
but I don't like to drive in traffic. There is a disconnect there."
The DOT expected to receive 15 to 20 applications for the Smart City
Challenge, but 78 American cities submitted applications. Last week,
Secretary Anthony Foxx narrowed the list to seven finalists. A winner will
be announced in June.
Even though only one city will win, federal officials said the sheer
number of applications showed city planners are beginning to address
some, urgently so the congestion, pollution and economic disparities
often caused by current road conditions and infrastructure.
"We, as a nation, have very challenging transportation issues and I think
some might say that's charitable," Foxx said while speaking at South By
Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. "... The question is what are we
going to do about them."
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Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/03/16/america-has-worst-traffic-in-
world/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
Gas prices are cheap. The unemployment rate is low. The population is
growing. Fueled by those factors, Americans drove more than three trillion
miles last year, according to the Federal Highway Administration, the most
since the start of the Great Recession.
But the increased economic activity comes with a downside more motorists
are stuck in traffic.
Congestion is a growing problem in most major US cities, according to
Inrix, a leading provider of real-time and predictive traffic data. The
Seattle-based company released its annual traffic scorecard Tuesday, and
found commuters in America waste more time stuck in traffic than anywhere
else in the world. The average American commuter loses an average of
nearly 50 hours a year atrophying in traffic, according to Inrix.
Depending on where you live, that number can vary greatly. Los Angeles
commuters faced the worst conditions in the country, frittering away 81
hours per year in traffic. Washington D.C. and San Francisco drivers were
next, losing an average of 75 hours.
Rounding out the American top 10: Houston (74 hours), New York (73 hours),
Seattle (66 hours), Boston (64 hours), Chicago (60 hours), Atlanta (59
hours) and Honolulu (49 hours). Worldwide, Londoners faced the worst
traffic, wasting 101 hours per year idling in their cars. But American
cities claimed the next five spots. Overall, US commuters wasted 8 billion
hours in traffic, according to Inrix.
It's going to get worse. An estimated 70 million more people will be
competing for space on highways over the next 30 years, according to
federal estimates. During the same period, DOT projections indicate there
will be 65 percent more trucks on American roads.
Transportation officials have begun to re-think their approach to dealing
with urban congestion. In December, the DOT kicked off the "Smart City
Challenge," a national competition that offers $40 million in federal
money as a prize to a single city that presents the most innovative plan
for reconfiguring its future around sustainable and shared transportation
options while incorporating the use of data solutions.
"As a society, we don't value our time at all," said Seval Oz, head of
Continental's business unit for intelligent transportation systems. "We
haven't thought about what it costs us to sit in traffic. I love to drive,
but I don't like to drive in traffic. There is a disconnect there."
The DOT expected to receive 15 to 20 applications for the Smart City
Challenge, but 78 American cities submitted applications. Last week,
Secretary Anthony Foxx narrowed the list to seven finalists. A winner will
be announced in June.
Even though only one city will win, federal officials said the sheer
number of applications showed city planners are beginning to address
some, urgently so the congestion, pollution and economic disparities
often caused by current road conditions and infrastructure.
"We, as a nation, have very challenging transportation issues and I think
some might say that's charitable," Foxx said while speaking at South By
Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. "... The question is what are we
going to do about them."
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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