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How Much Traffic You Sit In · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: If you're sitting in traffic right now, it's just a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes of the forty five hours a year you
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  Speaker 1: spend in traffic. Is that the number there we have, Christine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we're averaging out to.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you for having light FM on during your traffic.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, congestion is so bad. The average American will
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  Speaker 1: spend forty to forty five hours a year sitting in traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Why does it feel like more?
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  Speaker 1: It should be like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers looked at traffic congestion in sixty eight urban areas
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  Speaker 1: across America and found the average American spends forty to
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  Speaker 1: forty five hours a year stuck in traffic. Congested roadways
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  Speaker 1: cost over one hundred and fifty billion a year and
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  Speaker 1: wasted time and burned fuel. Yep, you gotta think of
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  Speaker 1: the gas nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: Course always in your time, Like it says wasted time.
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  Speaker 1: We do have those knock on wood pretty good commutes
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  Speaker 1: coming in at four in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, So if you want to wake up at
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  Speaker 2: three am to avoid the traffic at all, you got
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  Speaker 2: that going for you.
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  Speaker 1: I feel for the people right now that are in
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  Speaker 1: that forty five minutes an hour at a tunnel or
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  Speaker 1: a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: I know you know when you and I are often
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  Speaker 2: we have to come in and I always call it
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  Speaker 2: like real people hours, and it's like, wow, real people
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  Speaker 2: have to sit in this every day.
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  Speaker 1: If I drive up Sixth Avenue like at two pm
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  Speaker 1: ever weekday, I'm like, I have this road all to
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  Speaker 1: myself at four it initially, what are you people doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's yeah, my heart goes out to you because
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  Speaker 2: I barely have any patients for traffic. And then every
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  Speaker 2: single day.
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  Speaker 1: And the people that do it every single day. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you we're talking.
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  Speaker 2: To you coming in.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do home and going home? Right? Right? Man?
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  Speaker 1: That's why you have light FM.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here for you. I have to keep you calm, cool, collected.
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  Speaker 1: Yes exactly. And as you're sitting in traffic, we're looking
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