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  Dot-com bust has freed up freeways
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Last EditedServo  Jul 08, 2003 12:53am
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News DateTuesday, July 8, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionSilicon Valley has lost 196,200 jobs since the dot-com collapse three years ago. And it seems like every laid-off worker was a commuter on Highway 17.

Today, traffic is flowing more smoothly on every Santa Clara County freeway than it did back in the boom-clogged days of 2000. The freeways haven't been this free since 1997, and there is a cruel twist in that. The more the economy bleeds jobs, the easier vehicles flow through the valley's arteries.
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