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Gridlock Costing Canadians Billions Per Year

Posted by: Michael Dudley
Thanks to: Terry Zdan
3 April 2006 - 10:00am

A major new study from Transport Canada shows that Canadians pay a heavy price for being stuck in traffic.

"The study estimates that the total annual cost of congestion (in 2002 dollars) ranges from $2.3 billion to $3.7 billion for the major urban areas in Canada. More than 90 percent of this cost represents the value of the time lost to auto travellers (drivers and their passengers)in congestion. The remainder represents the value of fuel consumed (around 7 percent) and GHG's emitted under congestion conditions (around 3 percent). The study estimates an increase of 1.2 to 1.4 megatonnes of GHG due to congestion every year."

Full Story: Cost of Urban Congestion in Canada [PDF, 240KB]
Source: Transport Canada, March 22, 2006
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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