The 2012 Urban Mobility Report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institution details the enormous costs associated with increasing traffic congestion in America’s major metro areas. The report found that U.S. commuters spent 5.5 billion hours and almost three billion gallons of fuel sitting in traffic during 2011.
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