KOSU By Graycen Wheeler
September 5, 2024
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute released its annual urban mobility report earlier this summer. The study, which analyzes data from 2022, shows how traffic delays affected commuters in four Oklahoma communities.
That year, the average Oklahoma City commuter lost 52 hours to traffic congestion. That doesn’t mean they spent 52 hours in their car — it means they spent 52 extra hours in their car compared to the time they would have spent if they didn’t get stuck in unexpected traffic.
Altogether, OKC residents spent nearly 43 million extra hours in traffic — twice as many as they did just 20 years ago.
Up the turnpike, Tulsans spent 41 extra hours in their cars in 2022. In both OKC and Tulsa, most delays happened on freeways and outside of rush hours.
The study also looked at Norman, where commuters spent 42 extra hours in traffic that year, and Lawton, where they lost just 6.
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