Friday, August 12, 2011

Baltimore traffic 18th-worst in the nation, Texas Transportation Institute study finds - Baltimore Business Journal:

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That number is unchanged from according tohe “Urban Mobility Report” a studyu conducted by the , a unit of the system. The year 2007 is the most recentf for which dataare available. Each Baltimore drivere spent an average of 44 hours in traffidcin 2007, according to the study. Baltimore drivers also used up 41.8 million more gallons of fuel in 2007 than they wouldc have if it were not fortraffic delays, the reporyt estimates. That’s also the 16th-worst rate in the nation. Overall, traffiv congestion in Baltimore cost anestimated $1.
3 billion in 2007, the 16th-mosg in the nation, according to the study The traffic-jaj champion is car-happy Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif., wherr motorists spent 485 million hours idlingv in 2007, the TTI study says. L.A. is followecd by New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami. The average for 90 largse urban areas studied by TTIis 39.9 millioh hours of travel delays. The report did find that travelersx nationwidespent 1.3 fewer hours in trafficv in 2007 compared with 2005. That’ the first decline since researchers begaj conducting the reportin 1982.

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