Exacerbating the congestion problemis Philadelphia's growing economy.
PHILADELPHIA— The cost of congestion within the Center Citystreet grid has been calculated in millions of hours and thousandsof jobs lost and a $260-annual tax on each Philadelphiahousehold.
A recently released report by Philadelphia-based based EconsultSolutions, Inc. found that Center City congestion resulted in 9.7million annual hours lost for bus and car passengers sitting intraffic; $152 million in annual time value and transportation costassociated with those delays and $21 million in additional SEPTAbus operating costs associated with maintaining the same level ofservice at slower speeds.
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John Jordan
John Jordan is a veteran journalist with 36 years of print and digital media experience.
