Getting around a big city by car is never a good idea, especially if we are in London. According to the latest report from the company TomTom, which analyzed traffic trends in 387 cities in 2023, the English capital continues to be the slowest city for moving by car. Dublin and Toronto follow.
According to this analysis, the average journey time for a ten kilometer journey in London was 37 minutes and 20 seconds, one minute more than in 2022 and almost two minutes more than in 2021. “This indicates a slow but steady return to the pre-pandemic trend of constantly increasing traffic,” say those responsible.
The time it takes to make that trip is worse during rush hours. These commuters spend an hour and 28 minutes in traffic every day, “losing about 38 minutes each day due to the extra traffic that comes with the rush hour rush.”
After London, the city with the greatest difficulty in getting around by car is Dublin. There, it takes drivers an average of 29 minutes and 30 seconds to travel ten kilometers. Third place goes to Toronto, where they spend 29 minutes making the same trip. In fourth and fifth position are Milan and Lima, with 28 minutes and 50 seconds and 28 minutes and 30 seconds, respectively.
In these four cities, drivers lose an average of one minute for every kilometer traveled due to general traffic and congestion, point out the authors of the analysis, who do not assess the damage that this entails for the environment.
Tokyo is in a very different situation, the one that achieves the best score of the 387 cities analyzed. On the same route, with optimal traffic, it takes about 18 and a half minutes. With traffic, it rises to 23 minutes and 40 seconds, which is a loss of six minutes due to traffic congestion, half of what Londoners lose.
