Drivers in Atlanta can take pride or not in knowing that they have the sixth-worst rated roads in the nation when it comes to traffic delays.According to the "Urban Mobility Report" from the Texas Transportation Institute, a unit of the Texas A&M University chain, drivers in the Atlanta metro area spent nearly 136 million hours in traffic delays in 2007, the most recent year of available data.
Metro Atlanta drivers also were estimated to have used up nearly 96 million more gallons of fuel two years ago than they would have if it were not for traffic delays, according to the report. That figure is also the sixth-worst rate in the nation.
A staggering financial number, traffic congestion in the metro Atlanta area cost approximately $3 billion in 2007, the fourth-most in the nation, according to the study.
The worst traffic congestion was the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif. area, where motorists spent 485 million hours stuck behind the wheel in 2007, the study notes.
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