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Daniel
12:4 Many shall run to and fro
Ward's Motor Vehicle Facts & Figures, 1999,
reports that, in 1996, the most recent date covered, there were 485,954,000 cars registered worldwide, and 185,404,000 trucks and buses, for a total, worldwide, of 671,358,000 motor vehicles."
The average miles driven per vehicle per year is 9000. That comes
to 6,042,222,000,000. That is six trillion, forty-two billion, two
hundred twenty-two million miles driven per year. Somebody is
doing a lot of running to and fro.
CNN NEWS
Traffic jams in the United States are
costing Americans $68 billion each year in wasted time and fuel,
according to a new report.
Based on the analysis of 75 U.S. cities, the annual Urban Mobility
Report from the Texas Transportation Institute finds the average
rush-hour driver -- not just commuters, but all drivers -- wastes
about 62 hours in traffic each year.
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Thursday,
February 16, 2006 - U.S. airlines
The U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS) today released this preliminary data:
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In
2004, there were 9,246,862
passenger flights in the US alone.
Jan. to Nov. 2004; 581,622,397
passengers flew in the United States.
Jan. to Nov. 2005; 606,439,681
passengers
flew in the United States. |
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Running to and fro on Trains
and Subways
The following is a list of the
10 rail systems, underground subways,
and metros in the world that receive the most passengers per year: |
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Moscow |
3.2 billion |
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Tokyo |
2.7 billion |
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Paris |
2.26 billion |
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Mumbai |
2.22 billion |
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Seoul |
1.6 billion |
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Mexico City |
1.3 billion |
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New York City |
1.4 billion |
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Osaka |
957 million |
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London |
886 million |
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Hong Kong |
798 million |
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Surely,
in these last days many are running
to and fro as the Prophet Daniel saw it would be.
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