Story Highlights U.S. drivers wasted 4.2 billion hours sitting in traffic in 2005, study says Traffic delays wasted 2.9 billion gallons of fuel; total cost was $78.2 billion Los Angeles rates worst; average driver there wastes 72 hours per year High gas prices haven't reduced time people spend commuting, study says http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/traffic.congestion.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest
the more you spend in petrol the more brown gets in his thieving pocket. but then again I'm talking about the UK.
No I don't think so. Building more and more roads is bad, very bad solution. First with building them we are losing and polluting our environment, second building new roads would initiate more and more traffic (traffic safety would drop) and third if we make roads on every available surface, that would increase traffic again and we'll have no place to live and rest. More and more cars will initiate more space for parking and so on and so on.... Solution, my DP friends, is only in improving public transport and some other measures.
an interesting read. i spent a hell of a lot of time in trafic, so i rekon mines closer to 60 hours than 38
you may have got past the travel... how ever results also found that the average man spends 22 weeks of his life waiting outside changing rooms in shops as his partner tries on different clothes He also ends up spending a week sitting in his car while picking up his lady love from girlie nights out –something 61 per cent of the guys answering the survey said drove them crazy. how ever while waiting can be a pain for men, they do get their own back by checking out other girls in the store – something one in five men admit to doing. full read here
Well, according to a sociological study at the rate the US is going, over half of the jobs will be done via teleconference (home offices essentially). That would be amazing, I know my job could technically be done from home.