Last year, the average American driver wasted 38 hours sitting in traffic.
You could spend a lot more time in traffic if you live in one of the ten cities below.
Los Angeles is the city with the worst congestion in 2012. At peak hours, traffic on Interstate 405 (pictured) in Los Angeles moved at just 14 miles per hour, adding 26 minutes to what should be an eight minute drive.
The complete list of cities with worst traffic:
Los Angeles
Honolulu
San Francisco
Austin
New York
Bridgeport
San Jose
Seattle
Washington, D.C.
Boston
The House passed a bill by a vote of 361-41 on Friday to end FAA furloughs.
The Senate has already passed the bill which now goes to the president to sign.
The FAA claims the furloughs were unavoidable. However, lawmakers say the agency could find the money elsewhere, by cutting spending on consultants and grant programs and in other areas.
Commercial airline flights started backing up and delayed some travelers Monday, a day after air traffic controllers started going on furlough because of government spending cuts.
Work furloughs involving air traffic controllers caused headaches around the nation for passengers Sunday.
Flights were delayed in many large hubs — up to three hours for some passengers.
The Obama administration has told the FAA to slash $600 million from their budget, causing air traffic controller furloughs. This is part of the federal government’s sequester.
The National Transportation Safety Board has found that texting by a pilot before and during a 2011 medical-helicopter flight in Missouri contributed to its crash.
This is the first time such distractions have been implicated in a fatal commercial-aviation accident.
The crash on August 26, 2011, in Mosby, Missouri, killed Terry Tacoronte, a patient who was being flown from one hospital to another. Pilot James Freudenbert, Randy Bever, a flight nurse, and Chris Frakes, a paramedic, also died. The helicopter was being operated under the name LifeNet.
The distraction from texting helped lead the pilot to take off without enough fuel, the investigative agency found at a hearing in Washington.
The helicopter’s engine stopped after the pilot reported that he had more fuel than was aboard, the NTSB found.
The NTSB documented at least 240 texts sent and received by the pilot during his shift the day of the accident.
Samoa Air has become the world's first airline to charge passengers by weight saying it's the system of the future.
Samoa Air, which flies in the Pacific region, including American Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tonga, says its pricing policy that it implemented in January is the fairest way to charge for a ticket.
There is a good reason why Samoa Air is the first to charge passengers by their weight -- according to the World Health Organization 80 percent of those aged 15 and above in Samoa are considered obese.
Leaving Abilene, Kansas
Midway between Abilene and Enterprise
Arriving in Enterprise, Kansas
... this was originally posted in August, 2009.
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