If time is money, Houstonians are wasting a bunch of it every day sitting in traffic. An annual Texas A&M Transportation Institution study found that national driving patterns shows Americans spent 5.5 Billion additional hours sitting in traffic in 2011.
So just how bad is traffic. On a national average, drivers plan for an hour to make a trip that would take 20 minutes without traffic.
Here's a look at the top 10 list.
- Washington, D.C.
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco-Oakland
- New York-Newark
- Boston
- Houston
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
- Seattle
The report is one of the key tools used by experts to solve traffic problems. The Texas Department of Transportation says the A&M report and commuter comments help them decide on what changes need to be made.
