Avoid the rush hour

The RAC (Royal Automobile Club) has suggested that traffic congestion causes £15 billion worth of lost working hours per year. For more information, see this news report from the BBC.

One of the RAC's suggestions for improvements is:

Widening all main motorways and trunk roads and adding more tunnels and bypasses

Personally, I disagree with this need for yet more construction work and road building which tears into greenfield areas.

However, it brings us neatly on to today's suggestion. If you work flexible hours, or Flexi Time, why not beat the rush hour traffic by going into work an hour early and also leaving an hour before the evening jams?

Or, if you're not an early morning person, go in an hour later and leave work later too.

A car sitting idle in traffic is spewing out carbon emissions and particulates and wasting fuel. This is obviously a bad thing - for the environment and for your bank account - so choose a time to go to work when the impact is lowest.

Well, it's time for me to go to work now, but if I wait half an hour I'll miss the queue at the traffic lights. Hmm, what shall I do while I'm waiting? Think up some more great tips for How To Go Green of course!

Have a nice day!
caldini