It’s undeniable that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive, sweeping impact on the way we live our lives. It changed everything, and according to a study published on Tuesday, that means traffic, too.
Now, if you’re already a resident of a major city, especially one that underwent strict shelter-in-place orders in 2020, you already know that traffic got a lot lighter. It turns out that when businesses are closed and people are asked to stay home, there’s generally less traffic, but exactly how big of a difference was there?
If you live in a major city in the US, that difference was somewhere around 50%. That works out to approximately 75 fewer hours spent in traffic over the year. That almost two standard, full-time work weeks that you got back. Of course, there wasn’t necessarily a lot that you could do with those hours.
Read the article at MSN.
