![]() I wouldn't normally start here.ĬURWOOD: But everybody else is walking here. KAY: Yes, one street width away from the site of the Boston Massacre.ĬURWOOD: Are you ready to try crossing the street? Let's go! Kay in downtown Boston at the busy intersection of Congress and State Streets, to survey the damage firsthand.ĬURWOOD: We're standing now at one of the worst pedestrian intersections in the city, wouldn't you say? She's the author of "Asphalt Nation, How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back." We met up with Ms. ![]() Cars contribute heavily to smog and greenhouse gas emissions, make sprawl possible, and our cities less livable, says Jane Holtz Kay. Eight billion hours! Now if our time is worth, on average, $12 an hour, that's over $100,000,000,000 worth of lost time, making traffic jams a bigger drain on society than the federal deficit. ![]() Collectively, Americans spend 8,000,000,000 hours stalled in traffic each year. Our roads have become increasingly clogged. ![]() Driving is convenient, but there's a price to pay. We drive to pick the kids up from soccer practice, to just about everywhere. Many of us would find it hard to imagine life without a car. ![]()
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