a traffic hold up for me is literally getting stuck for a minute or two behind a sh1t spreader... thank God it's never more than one
Posted on 02/12/2019 1:54:06 PM PST by Signalman
Time is money, and a new report shows just how much time and money American's are wasting sitting in their cars and trucks.
The total last year was $87 billion, or $1,348 per driver, according to new data analyzed by research firm INRIX. Each year, INRIX issues a Global Traffic Scorecard based on millions of pieces of data from connected vehicles, departments of transportation, cellular positioning reports and a number of other sources.
The picture they paint of congestion in the U.S. in 2018 is not pretty, especially when it comes to the excess amount of time we spend behind the wheel slowly working our way to work or some other destination.
"Traffic is still really bad out there," said Trevor Reed, Transportation Analyst with INRIX.
INRIX ranks Boston, Washington D.C. and Chicago as the three worst U.S. cities for congestion in terms of hours lost by drivers annually.
In the Boston area, INRIX calculates drivers lost 164 hours, just under one week, dealing with slow-moving traffic last year. The cost of that congestion the Boston area in terms of lost productivity came to $4.1 Billion according to the report. INRIX says that works out to an average "congestion cost" per Boston area driver of $2,291.
The analysis says Washington, D.C. and Chicago drivers lost 155 and 138 hours respectively due to heavy traffic in 2018. Both are ranked by INRIX as slightly more congested than New York City and Los Angeles.
"Old cities that did not develop around cars and driving have the worst congestion," said Reed.
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It makes the commuter rail, which sucks and is expensive, a dream in comparison.
Oh gee gosh golly!! We better had give up our cars and hop on L’il Lexie’s New Green Deal Train! What a timely article! Thanks, MSM !!
Even when traffic is moving I’m amazed at the commutes people are willing to tolerate.
Only a temporary problem.
AOC will confiscate the cars, ground the aircraft, and put in TONS of high-speed rail. (All solar powered.)
Problem solved.
No jobs, no traffic jams of people struggling to get to “work.”
She’s a genius, I tell ya...
I know how to fix the traffic congestion in DC... we had a test run only a bit more than a month ago.
I’d like to see cities take more responsibility for their roads.
Democrats oppose road expansion despite rising gas tax revenues.
The other issue is vehicles driving at different speeds...something solved by autonomous vehicles.
It’s Money That Matters
https://youtu.be/wEdnd8hQA30
AOC will confiscate the cars, ground the aircraft, and put in TONS of high-speed rail. (All solar powered.)
Guv Newsome in Cali just terminated their speed boondoggle...
It’s a good thing we spent 20+ Billion taxpayer dollars on the “big dig” in Boston. Can you imagine how bad traffic would be if we had to wait the additional 6 minutes “big dig” saved?!? /s (for the sarcastically impaired)
Two hour commutes (each way) was the norm.
I then moved to a job in NYC and I figured I was in for even a worse time but I was pleasantly surprised. Traffic in and around NYC moves pretty well - at least compared to Boston.
That said, the commuter trains ARE a dream. I take the Metro North out of Connecticut and into Grand Central and it's a very nice ride. Plus you can grab a beer for the way home - if you are so inclined. Still a two-hour commute but more pleasurable with my iPad, my Kindle and my evening beer.
I prefer donkey carts. They go faster than cars on the freeway at rush hour, are cute, and you can recycle dried donkey dung in your wood stove. Environmentally friendlier, that’s my fave thing about it. And it’s familiar to the poor illegals coming over the border.
So familiar, in fact, that they might decide not to come.
That was a great video! Thanks for linking.
At the very end, you had the sign "Revere Beach Talent Audition" - I spent a lot of years on that beach growing up.
a traffic hold up for me is literally getting stuck for a minute or two behind a sh1t spreader... thank God it's never more than one
I think high speed rail is just like socialism. Sure, it didn't work last time we tried, but it's a really good idea. We just have to do it the right way.
The dollar figures are phony.
They equate “inconvenient time” in EVERY case as time not spent doing something that would have been earning money (”lost productivity”).
When in fact, the “time lost” is normally NOT time “away from the desk where wages are earned” but just “extra time getting to and from work” - needing to leave earlier and getting home later, due NOT to hours, or hours lost at the desk, just time spent on the road.
In other words that extra time would not have been earning anything, it would have been relaxing, before and after work. THAT cannot be given a dollar figure, as important as that time is to the individuals.
Yes, INRIX could rate traffic congesttion, but they should quit the myth of the dollar figures in “lost productivity” about it. They cannot compute it. They have no way of knowing how many of the extra minutes or hours driving represents “lost productivity”.
There might be a certain dollar figure that could be discerned from the “shipping” and “delivery” industries, alone. It would relate to lost dollars in overtime due to the traffic that freight & delivery drivers have to contend with. There might even be some way to discern costs due to “lost productivity” for those goods not delivered on time where needed for industry. There might even be “cancellation of order” costs related to late deliveries.
But those things are not what the NRIX index does, as far as costs.
It merely assumes every “extra moment” of driving for everyone who is driving is time not spent working when they would have been working and/or it took away from “productive” time at an income loss. There is no such way to discern that from the traffic data alone.
And the “cost” per hour/minute of time? INRIX’s methodology for estimating that cost is proprietary and they do not reveal how they come up with it.
So their “costs” - ALL OF THEM - cannot be independently verified.
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