California has worst U.S. traffic: study
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Californians idle in the nation's worst traffic jams on interstates surrounding major metropolitan areas but they are far from alone -- 52 percent of these urban stretches of highways are congested, according to a new study released on Thursday.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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Rain-soaked California got even wetter Monday as another storm dumped heavy snow in the mountains, eroded beaches and shut down a 40-mile stretch of the state's major north-south highway.
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Bad driving is wasting precious motorway space, according to a new study by the RAC Foundation.
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Washingtonians are spending an increasing amount of their lives stuck in ever-worsening traffic, according to a national study released this morning that also found that the region maintained
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The average U.S. motorist spends 46  hours each year or nearly two full days stuck in rush-hour  traffic jams.
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Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study
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Living in a sprawling car-dependent suburb is bad for your health, producing an array of predictable disorders from obesity to high blood pressure, California researchers say.
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Google Maps has added the ability to view real time traffic data for 30 major US cities, highlighting traffic jams and slow moving traffic.  Traffic conditions are displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving:  Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per hour Red: [...]
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Traffic congestion may be worsened by motorists chatting on cellphones, a new study suggests.
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The slowdown of California's   housing market has become a drag on the state's economy as home   building and financing payrolls thin, but the most populous   U.S. state will avoid recession through 2008, according to a   UCLA Anderson Forecast report.
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Motorists suffer daily traffic jams because the Highways Agency has been slow in tackling the problem, a report says.
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A winter storm moving south across California is making one of the busiest travel weekends of the year even tougher. Fliers and road travelers alike may be affected by the storm that started moving in to southwestern California on Saturday night.
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Most Californians believe the state is in a poor economic condition that will continue through 2008, according to a recent poll.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.
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In a study that gives new meaning to the  concept of a "killer commute," researchers have concluded that  people caught in traffic are three times more likely to suffer  a heart attack within the hour than those who aren't tied up on  the road.
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In a study that gives new meaning to the concept of a "killer commute," researchers have concluded that people caught in traffic are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack within the hour than those who aren't tied up on the road.