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Coping With The Commute

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
18 March 2003 - 10:00am

The average urban driver spends 62 hours sitting in traffic. Riders on the elevated Metrorail look on the congested traffic below as entertainment.

"The average South Florida commuter drives 12 miles to work...and they're spending increasingly more time on the road. A recent Texas Transportation Institute annual study found the average urban motorist spent 62 hours sitting in traffic in 2000 compared with 16 hours in 1982..Metrorail riders enjoy watching traffic crawl...on the elevated tracks of the Metrorail, the bumper-to-bumper crawl below turns into a form of entertainment. So excuse their smugness...the Metrorail commute has its own subculture, an ebb and flow that reflects the city it services."

Full Story: A hard-way highway
Source: The Miami Herald, March 17, 2003
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