Infographic: Your commute is killing you
How much time do you spend in the car each day going to and from work? Hopefully not much, because the consequences are grim.
It’s safe to say no one in the world likes traffic.
Yet most of us have to trudge our way through it to get to and from work every day. It’s a necessary evil.
Have you ever tracked how much time you spend commuting? An infographic from CollegeatHome.com says Americans spend almost 50 minutes a day on the road.
Commuters in Chicago and Washington, D.C. spend the most time in highway traffic each year: about 80 hours. Los Angeles and Houston come in third and fourth, respectively.
Yes, that’s a long time to be on the road, but here’s the scary part: The infographic also says all that time in the car is killing you.
Commuting makes you angrier.
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