Traffic delays direct more people in fast food: study

Traffic routes block roads – and your arteries.

Sudden deceleration is removing automobiles from highways and in a fast food machine, found a new study.

In Los Angeles County, Gridlock Surprise causing a 31 -second delay per mile on driver’s day trips resulted in a 1% jump in visits to fast food restaurants, translating approximately 1.2 million more trips per year, according to a new newspaper of urban Economyics paper

“This is a very prominent time limitation for making decisions about dinner,” the post of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rebecca Taylor, who is one of the authors of the study, told The post.

“I think of my personal experience is,” Now I’m getting home later. Do I really want to spend time cooking a meal? ‘”

Researchers made their juicy discovery by analyzing highway traffic models across the West Coast West District from January 2017 to December 2019, along with mobile GPS data showing how often people were visiting dining spots like Taco Bell or in-n-out.

To understand the decisions of the Gridlock driver that promote addictive drivers decisions to choose a greasy nosh, Taylor said “Likes how to compare 10am at 5am in traffic”.

The unexpected slows were also associated with a “slight landing” on grocery store visits, further strengthening the theory that traffic delays direct people to fast and light meals.

Bill Oakley, a former priority for “The Simpsons” turned into a fast food reviewer, recalled to take a break for the nearest McDonald quarter pounder tens of time over the years during the delays that cause headaches in the house his travel.

“My patience is worn down, glucose in my brain is low from stress,” said Oakley, 58.

“If that were the 1970s, I would shine a cigarette, but now I would go down from the highway, I will get joy.”

However, decades of research have shown the harmful effects of fast food on human health, including rapid fast nutrition it may have on passenger waist lines.

A 2019 paper study 700 Elementary School staff in New Orleans suggested passengers who had more fast food joints lining their roads on their way straight and also had higher results of body mass index.

The latest newspaper suggested that the findings are applicable to a host of dilapidated cities across the country-including Big Apple, which has created a controversial $ 9-blocking fee-and offer another reason for politicians to try to pump the brakes in blocking their cities.

“There are many reasons why we may want to reduce traffic, and here’s another … It’s encouraging unhealthy eating behavior,” Taylor said.