Improving Quality of Life
July 16th, 2013
Metro also delivers quality-of-life benefits to individuals by reducing the costs of travel and minimizing environmental impacts. Without transit:
- Congestion at peak times would increase 25 percent, costing over $1.0 billion annually in wasted time.
- Households would spend an additional $500 million/year in auto expenditures, including an additional 41 million gallons of fuel annually.
- Air quality would worsen because of an additional 260 tons of volatile organic compounds, 22 tons of particulate matter and 500,000 tons of CO2 equivalent in the air, the equivalent of 9 billion party balloons.
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