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To: LindyBill who started this subject7/7/2003 6:46:52 PM
From: Bridge Player   of 793917
 
<<<<Silicon Valley has lost 196,200 jobs since the dot-com collapse three years ago. And it seems like every laid-off worker was a commuter on Highway 17.

Today, traffic is flowing more smoothly on every Santa Clara County freeway than it did back in the boom-clogged days of 2000. The freeways haven't been this free since 1997, and there is a cruel twist in that. The more the economy bleeds jobs, the easier vehicles flow through the valley's arteries.

A new Valley Transportation Authority report reveals that no freeway has loosened up more than the curvy, 28-mile Santa Cruz Mountain road from the summit to Interstate 280. In 2000, drivers could count on bumper-to-bumper traffic on nearly 23 of those miles during peak hours in each direction. Last year, the slowdown stretched for less than nine miles.

And for the first time since the recession of the early '90s, traffic eased noticeably on city streets. Of 255 intersections included in the report, only 13 -- a mere 5 percent -- reported extended delays. A delay could be as little as a minute on average, or it could take several changes of the signal to clear the light.>>>>

Apparently, job losses are not an unalloyed tragedy for those living and still working in the Valley.
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