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Transparency: The Cities Where Sprawl Makes the Commute the Worst

What creates traffic jams isn't more cars and fewer highways, it's sprawl. See our infographic on the longest sprawl-induced commutes in America.

Transparency: The Cities Where Sprawl Makes the Commute the Worst


Americans spend many hours in traffic each year, slowly crawling between work and home. And while most commutes are unpleasant, some are far more congested. Why? A new study by CEOs for Cities has found that what creates traffic jams isn’t more cars and fewer highways, it’s sprawl. This is a look at the 10 metropolitan areas whose citizens spend the most and least extra time in traffic due to sprawl, out of 51 cities studied.

SOURCE: Driven Apart by Joe Cortright for CEOs for Cities.


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