A third rush hour is emerging - lunchtime.
More accidents happen during the lunch period than during normal commute hours.
The earth takes between five and ten million years to make one gallon of gasoline. The average automobile uses one gallon of gasoline in about 22 minutes. There is now one more vehicle for every 1.34 people in the United States. One full 40-foot bus is equivalent to a line of 58 moving automobiles stretching 6 city blocks if traffic is moving at 25 m.p.h. This figure is expected to triple by 2005.