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Labor Day weekend is usually one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, but who can tell anymore? Our roads are so overcrowded that a hectic holiday weekend is indistinguishable from an average weekday. Washington, D.C. is already the fourth most congested city in the U.S., behind only San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. Commute times during peak traffic hours are 51 percent longer than during off-peak times, meaning a trip that is supposed to take you 30 minutes takes over 45.

I would challenge you democtatic underground lurkers (or a freeper with a DU account) to post this over there and see what sort of repsonses come from the left... I keep hearing how oil dependent we are and how higher consumption is driving up prices... I hear how it is adversely affecting 75% of americans, It seems like if that was the case, 75% of americans would cut the amount they use! I know I cant be the only person in america that has drastically cut the amount of fuel I use over the past year. I want to know...

The Tappan Zee Bridge, the most critical transportation link across the Hudson River north of New York City, is not even half as old as the Brooklyn Bridge, but its warranty has already expired. Started on the cheap during the Korean War, the Tappan Zee was deliberately built to last just 50 years. It passed that milestone last month, just days after transportation planners began gathering public advice about how to fix or replace it. But the decaying, overburdened span's anniversary was more bitter than sweet. Little love has been lost between the Tappan Zee and the tens of thousands...

Webster's Dictionary doesn't define "conseaterate," but subway and bus riders will learn the meaning from new signs. A Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ad campaign introduced yesterday is aimed at getting riders to change some behaviors. For example, a "doorker" is defined as a "person who crowds or blocks Metro doors, making it difficult for others to exit or enter promptly." "There's one called 'conseaterate,' which is a blending of the words considerate and seat," Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato said. "And the meaning for that is 'thoughtful toward others who are more in need of a Metrorail or Metrobus seat.'?"

August 25, 2005 The Times Stone axes highlight 10,000 years of commuting in stockbroker belt By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered an important Stone Age site in the heart of Surrey. An excavation has turned up flint tools and cooking pots from about 10,000 years ago at the site on the North Downs. The area, which bears the remains of cooked meals, campfires and flints shaped into tools by people who visited the North Downs around 8,000BC, is believed to contain one of the most important Mesolithic excavations in Britain. Andrew Josephs, an archaeologist and the project’s consultant,...

Londoners are climbing onto bikes and scooters in growing numbers, choosing to brave snarled traffic with little more than a helmet rather than ride Underground trains and buses after two rounds of attacks. Cruising London on two wheels is not for the faint of heart: buses bear down on bikers, taxis cut off riders. So the increase in bicycle and scooter sales — and the number of people walking to work — may be a sign of how seriously the transit bombings have shaken the British capital. Bike retailers reported an almost 400 percent increase in sales July 7, the...

<p>When gas prices soared above $2 a gallon last May and some of his co-workers started to complain and formulate end-of-the-world scenarios, Mike Cox barely noticed.</p> <p>The senior project manager for the state's Department of Environmental Quality has been riding his Trek to work for three years.</p>

A car-sharing program offering a number of cars for rent at hourly rates is set to begin in May in the Uptown and Loring Park neighborhoods of Minneapolis and the Lowertown neighborhood of St. Paul, the sponsor said Tuesday. Who might consider it? People who need a car only occasionally, such as those who get to work by bus, on a bike or by walking. The program would allow people to avoid the financial burden of owning a car, yet have the use of a shared vehicle for errands or longer trips. How does it work? The program, called HOURCAR,...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to commuting times, no city tops the Big Apple.</p> <p>The average New York City resident spends 38 minutes getting to work, nearly six minutes more than runner-up Chicago, according to the Census Bureau. Philadelphia, Riverside, Calif., and Baltimore rounded out the top five cities with 250,000 or more people.</p>

May 22, 2002 Lots of Seats, but Sorry, This Car's TakenBy RANDY KENNEDY t sounds like the dream of an Amtrak rider the night after a really bad trip home. The rider paces the platform at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, looking into cars, finding every seat full, the aisles packed with angry standees. Then at the end of the train, a vision: a car incredibly, miraculously, half empty! There are seats! Everyone inside looks almost happy! It is a suburban commuter's Shangri-La! Like many sweet dreams, this one will end in frustration, however, just as it does in the waking...