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Traffic Study: How Does Salt Lake Rank?
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Congestion on the nation's highways has gotten so bad that the average person spends 36 hours a year sitting in traffic, a new report says.
Two years earlier, the national average was 34 hours. In 1982, that same person spent 11 hours in traffic annually.
The findings were released Monday by the Texas Transportation Institute, part of Texas A&M University, which studied congestion in 68 urban areas. The data was compiled by 11 state highway departments.
The most congested highways in the country were found in Los Angeles, where residents in 1999 averaged 56 hours a year-- more than a work week's worth of time-- in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Here are some specifics of the study.
The 10 urban areas with the heaviest traffic:
1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco-Oakland
3. Seattle
4. Washington
5. Chicago
6. San Diego
7. Boston
8. Portland, Ore.
9. Atlanta
10. Las Vegas
41. Salt Lake City
Here are the top urban areas with the longest annual delays per person:
1. Los Angeles, 56 hours
2. Atlanta, 53 hours;
Seattle, 53 hours
3. Houston, 50 hours
4. Dallas, 46 hours; Washington, 46 hours
5. Austin, Texas, 45 hours; Denver, 45 hours
6. St. Louis, 44 hours
7. Boston, 42 hours; Miami, 42 hours; Nashville, Tenn., 42 hours;
Orlando, Fla., 42 hours;
San Jose, Calif., 42 hours;
San Francisco-Oakland, 42 hours;
51. Salt Lake City, 18 hours
Source: Texas Transportation Institute
Get details on Salt Lake and other cities at mobility.tamu.edu/2001/study/cities/.
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