Stuck in your car for several minutes, are you thinking that Paris is the city with the worst traffic jams? You are almost right.
According to the “Global Traffic Scorecard” by the British transport analysis company Inrix, London remains the most congested urban area in Europe, but the French capital is close behind. Dublin in Ireland completes the podium.
According to the study, London drivers spent an average of 101 hours stuck in traffic last year, a 2% increase on the previous year.
In total, “the average British driver lost 62 hours due to traffic jams last year, an increase of one hour on the previous year,” it says.
Paris is not far behind with 97 hours, a stable level for a year, but 1% more than in 2022. For Dublin, it is 81 hours (+13%).
Followed by Brussels (74 hours), Rome (71), Warsaw (70), Bath in the United Kingdom (68).
To arrive at these figures, Inrix says it used several data sources, including those from drivers’ smartphones.
Globally, Istanbul in Turkey wins the award for traffic jams with 105 hours of blockages, ahead of New York (102 hours) and Chicago (102 hours). In this ranking, Paris occupies sixth place.
“Each year since 2020, we have seen road traffic gradually increase back to what it was before the pandemic,” says Bob Pishue, transportation analyst at Inrix and author of the report.
Source: BFM TV
