COVID Effect. Cost of Traffic Congestion.

What is happening? traffic congestion has returned, not to pre-COVID levels, but it has returned. The average person spends 51 hours per year in traffic congestion. That’s up by 15+ hours from 2021. Traffic congestions costs $869 in lost time. Chicago drivers lost 155 hours; Houston 74, Austin 53 and Dallas 56; and Los Angeles 95 hours.

NPR | Traffic congestion got much worse in 2022 but is still below pre-pandemic levels