Bangkok traffic jams among world's worst
Bangkok drivers spent 64 hours in traffic jams last year to become 12th most congested city in world, up from 30th in 2015.
Bangkok drivers spent 64 hours in traffic jams last year to become 12th most congested city in world, up from 30th in 2015.
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Bangkok ranked among world's most congested roads
20/02/2017
Reuters and Online Reporters
Bangkok drivers spent an average 64.1 hours stuck in congested traffic last year.
They wasted a lot of gasoline and fuel in the process.
Los Angeles, however, was the city with the world's biggest rush hour traffic delays.
This is according to a study by INRIX Inc released on Monday (see here & here).
The absence of Manila and Saigon from the INRIX rankings seems to throw the thoroughness of the ranking into question. Manila has been cited as having worse traffic than Bangkok.
BANGKOK CONGESTION RANKING SOARED TO MUCH WORSE THAN 2015
The INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard rated Bangkok the 12th most congested of all cities rated, considerably worse than 30th in 2015, with a traffic scorecard rating of 11, down from 20 in 2015.
Bangkok drivers spent an average 64.1 hours a year in traffic jams, according to the scorecard -- 23% of overall time and an average 33% of their time during peak hours.
This was immediately above Caracas and Mexico City, both long known for horrendous traffic, which improved from near the top of the list in the 2015 rankings.
HOW WAS THE RANKING CALCULATED?
INRIX, based in Kirkland, Washington, aggregates and analyzes traffic data collected from vehicles and highway infrastructure.
The company said the latest edition of its Global Traffic Scorecard report was based on 500 terabytes of data from 300 million sources.
US HAS WORST TRAFFIC AMONG DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
According to the study, the United States had the worst traffic among rich, developed economies in 2016.
Five of the world's 10 most congested cities are in the United States, INRIX found.
LOS ANGELES AT 105 HOURS WORST CITY FOR SLOW RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC
The INRIX study sliced data in different ways. Los Angeles drivers spent an average of 104 peak drive-time hours fighting slow traffic during 2016.
That put Los Angeles at the top of the list of cities where drivers spent the most hours stuck in slow rush hour traffic.
TIME STUCK IN CONGESTION: MOSCOW IS WORSE
But on a different measure, time stuck in congestion as a share or percentage of all driving, Moscow drivers had it worse.
They spent 25.2% of their total driving hours on congested roads, while Los Angeles motorists spent 12.7% of their total driving time in slow traffic, the study found.
In Bogota, Colombia, motorists spend 31.8% of their total driving time in traffic jams.
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, ATLANTA & MIAMI ALSO TRAFFIC-CHOKED US CITIES
The worst stretch of road in the United States is New York City's Cross Bronx Expressway, where drivers on the 4.7 mile (7.5 km) road spent an average of 86 hours a year staring at the bumper of the car ahead.
After Los Angeles, INRIX listed New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Miami as the most traffic- choked US cities.
LA traffic jams were immortalized in the 1993 movie Falling Down starring Michael Douglas.
He is pushed into increasingly violent encounters after leaves his car, stuck in an LA traffic jam, to walk by foot to his ex-wife's home to go to his daughter's birthday party:
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