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Study: California Home to Busiest Freeways in U.S.

California beat out Texas by almost 30 billion miles.

The department's Federal Highway Administration enacted the study and found that California highways rolled up more than 84 billion miles in 2011. According to a release from the department, that's more than 900 times the distance from Earth to the Sun.

Individually, the California's Interstate 5 Freeway led the nation with 21.4 billion miles traveled that year. The report also states that the Los Angeles’ section of I-405 serves about 379,000 vehicles per day, making it the busiest interstate in any American city.

Locally, motorists drove about 2.5 million miles on Highway 280 in 2011.

To check out more of the report, click here.

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