Tulsa World
By CARY ASPINWALL World Staff Writer
Published: 1/22/20112:24 AM
Last Modified: 1/22/20113:51 AM
Laurie Tomlinson grew so tired of commuting nearly an hour each way every workday, she and her husband packed up and moved.
After relocating to south Tulsa from Broken Arrow, the commute to her marketing job at CityPlex Towers shrank to five minutes.
"The commute was definitely a huge factor," she said. "We're just closer to everything in Tulsa in general."
If Tulsans have little tolerance for traffic congestion, it's likely because residents don't sit in traffic nearly as long as commuters in other cities, according to the 2010 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University.
On average, Tulsa commuters spend an extra 18 hours per year in delays caused by congestion. That's about one-quarter of the 70 extra hours commuters in Chicago and Washington, D.C., spend stuck in traffic, according to the report... FULL ARTICLE
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Sat, January 22, 2011
by John Cox