Interesting Fact - Traffic

According to traffic researcher Frank Schmid, there are 160,000 traffic jams in Germany every year.

(This means that 288 million litres of petrol are wasted and 714,000 tons of C02 created. I'm afraid that on my last two holidays I was a contributer, for some reason every time I drive a long way in Germany, someone decides to demolish a bridge on the motorway I'm on.)