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Drivers are motionless in Seattle, bedeviled in Boston and hung up in the heartland.
The national average of time spent in congestion was up about 30 percent over five years, to 34 hours a year. In the 68 counties it studied, Orlando's group says the problem is urban sprawl. But some cities in California and scattered areas of the nation have figured out how to stop a bad situation from getting much worse, the Texas Transportation Institute said in its annual study released Tuesday. The study is based on commuting figures from the federal government and states. The San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area, Hartford, Connecticut, Honolulu and Brownsville, Texas, held the line on congestion over five years, while San Jose, California, actually saw a decline, the study found.