According a report released by Inrix Inc. Honolulu has replaced Los Angeles, California as the most congested city in the United States. The report stated that the average Hawaii resident wasted an average of 58 hours stuck in traffic in 2011 as compared to 56 hours in Los Angeles. Honolulu had jumped up 36 ranks in 2011, mainly because of change in Inrix’s congestion counting methods. Jim Bak, one of the co-authors of the report, stated, “We’ve shifted to focus on travel time for individual drivers, rather than overall congestion. L.A. has 15 times more people and 20 times the roadways of Honolulu, so at the system level, it obviously has much greater overall congestion.”
Supporters of the Honolulu Rail Project point to the growing traffic problems of the island of Oahu as one of their main arguements to build the $5.4 billion project.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 5-22-2012, www.staradvertiser.com
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