Do you have any idea how much time you will spend in traffic during the course of your life? Let’s be optimistic and say you live to be about 80 years old, and also lets account for the fact there’s a good chance that later in life you will be driving less. Ready? It’s safe to estimate that you will spend upwards to 2,600 hours of your life stuck in traffic. Give or take a few hundred hours. That is not a pretty figure. And things may be getting worse since we are currently seeing an elevated amount of traffic and congestion on our roads. And the reason why may come as a surprise: economic growth. That’s right and while at first it may seem strange but it makes a lot of sense when you look closer. More People are working and spending money so it only reasons that there would be more people out and about.

ABC News recently did a feature on the amount of traffic that Americans have to slough through each year. news just recently did a feature about the amount of traffic that Americans have to slough through each year.

And that brings us to our final point. If you’re thinking of transporting a vehicle that you own you’re more than better off having it moved by way of a car transporter that you can trust like Direct Connect Auto. After all you will already spend a depressingly long amount of time in traffic as it is, so you should shave time off that figure when you can. Besides, having a car shipped is almost always less expensive than driving yourself and the savings only improve the further it has to go. So you should spend your time enjoying the resurgent economy by counting all the money you’ve saved–instead of stuck in traffic.

We’ll leave you with a graph of the US cities that experience the worst traffic. You can also read more about traffic woes here.

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