Drivers in major European cities like London and Amsterdam spend over a year stuck in traffic over their lifetimes. While transport has become safer overall with road fatalities expected to drop 40% between 2000 and 2010, the risk of dying in a plane crash in America remains very low. The Channel Tunnel connects passengers between the UK and France via high-speed rail.
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5. In London, Amsterdam and Brussels,
drivers spend more than a
year in road traffic. In Manchester and
Paris, they spend more
stuck on roads.
6. Transport has become a lot safer. The
number of people killed in road accidents
in 2010 is expected to be 40% lower than in
2000.
7. The risk of being killed in a
plane crash in America is
.
13. Transport has become a lot safer. The
number of people killed in road
accidents in 2010 is expected to be 40%
lower than in 2000.
16. Opened in 1994, the Channel Tunnel
carries passengers between the UK
and France on a high speed railway.