Traffic congestion continues to worsen in American cities of all sizes, creating a $78 billion annual drain on the U.S. economy in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion gallons of wasted fuel - that's 105 million weeks of vacation and 58 fully-loaded supertankers.
These are among the key findings of the Texas Transportation Institute's 2007 Urban Mobility Report (http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums beginning at 11:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, September 18, 2007.
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