The United States Census Bureau 2007 “National Data Book” is online. And it has some interesting information about traffic congestion (see 1078 - Roadway Congestion: 2003) in Las Vegas.

• Las Vegas’ annual cost per person due to traffic congestion is $279; the national average is $422.
• Our annual delay per person is 16 hours; the national average is 25 hours.
• Part of the perception of our problems is that we have a higher than average miles of freeway travel per lane-mile of freeway, probably because we’re more spread out than most cities our size (Las Vegas is 17,062 per day compared with the national average of 16,206).

Here is a direct link to the Census Bureau spreadsheet that includes this data.

Add to Technorati Favorites. This entry was posted on Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 8:06 am tagged Transportation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.