Traffic index ranking - Where does your city rank?

[RoastBeast]

Not sure how that would address pollution but where I live they've started replacing carpool lanes with "pay to drive in the fast lane".

If your commute was 25 miles and your car got 25mpg, it would save 1 gallon of gas burned for your commute if you opted to carpool with someone and leave your car at home.

If the HOV lane costs the other cars 1mpg in mileage (it's more), that would mean that you would need 1 in every 25 people to leave their car at home and carpool in order to just merely break even on a gallon of gas being burned.

Obviously there's way more variables than that but it's a rough estimate in how many people would need to leave their cars at home in order to utilize the HOV lane. Whether it would require 1 in 25 or 1 in 50, we know that there are tens of thousands of cars commuting through a normal sized city per day. There's no way that the amount of people opting to leave their cars at home is more than the gas mileage lost by the rest of the commuters.

 

[blaseblase]

If your commute was 25 miles and your car got 25mpg, it would save 1 gallon of gas burned for your commute if you opted to carpool with someone and leave your car at home.

If the HOV lane costs the other cars 1mpg in mileage (it's more), that would mean that you would need 1 in every 25 people to leave their car at home and carpool in order to just merely break even on a gallon of gas being burned.

Obviously there's way more variables than that but it's a rough estimate in how many people would need to leave their cars at home in order to utilize the HOV lane. Whether it would require 1 in 25 or 1 in 50, we know that there are tens of thousands of cars commuting through a normal sized city per day. There's no way that the amount of people opting to leave their cars at home is more than the gas mileage lost by the rest of the commuters.

Where are you getting the lost mileage from?

 

[Streeter]

Lesson here is when Muricans bitch bout traffic they should hold the rest of world's beer.

 

[RoastBeast]

Where are you getting the lost mileage from?

Sitting in traffic. It's why highway MPGs are higher than city MPGs as long as the highway driving consists of a fairly consistent free flowing speed.

 

[TeTe]

LA is 233?

I find that hard to believe. LA traffic is the stuff of legends.

I was just going to post that. These idiots clearly have never sat on the 405 or the 101 during rush hour. Holy shit.. 15 minute average commute? When? at 3 a.m.

 

[Plissken]

All three closest cities are n the 300's, congestion levels from 18-26.