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What European city has the worst traffic?

In 2022, traffic congestion reached or exceeded pre-COVID levels in 42% of the urban areas in Europe, according to a report from a transport research company, INRIX. The analysis of 593 urban areas in Europe showed that London, Paris and Palermo top the Impact Ranking as the most congested cities.



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Brussels, Belgium Brussels takes the top spot as the hardest city to drive in, with an overall score of 23 out of 100.

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Chicago ranked as the U.S. city with the highest traffic delays in 2022. On a global scale, the Illinois city ranked No. 2, after London in the United Kingdom. In Chicago, drivers lost 155 hours in 2022.

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London has been named the worst city for congestion in the world, according to the INRIX 2022 Global Traffic Scorecard. These are the roads with the biggest traffic jams: A219 Southbound between Fulham Road and Morden Hall Road. A202 Eastbound between Neathouse Place and Peckham Hill Street.

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Deaths in road accidents per 1 million passenger cars (2021) Romania, Northern Macedonia, Lithuania and Hungary are thus among the worst European countries when it comes to road accidents.

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London, for the second year in a row, has been the rated the most congested city in the world, according to traffic experts at Inrix. In the UK overall, traffic delays increased in 79 out of 110 urban areas year-over-year.

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Lebanon took top spot and the unenviable title of the world's most dangerous country to be a driver, with a high road traffic death rate of 22.6 deaths per 100,000 population, extremely poor road quality conditions and a motor vehicle theft rate of 179 thefts per 100,000 population.

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The Countries with the Safest Drivers According to the official website of the European Union, Sweden and the Netherlands are the safest countries to drive in.

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Low traffic zones At the other end of the scale, we see Middlesbrough, Preston and Stoke-on-Trent as the three least traffic-ridden of the UK's larger cities. The UK's least congested big cities (with additional travel time as a percentage of expected travel time) are: Reading – 24% Portsmouth – 24%

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And our roads are getting worse every year. According to Inrix, drivers spend more time stuck on gridlocked streets in London than in any other city on the planet. In 2022, our road hogs lost a whopping 156 hours each to congestion. (Up from 148 hours in 2021, and 5 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels.)

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Hardknott Pass is considered to be one of the most challenging in the UK. It has earned this consideration due to its series of hairpin bends and the high risk of ice on the road. It is a steep, twisting, single-track road that cuts right through the heart of the Lake District between the Duddon Valley and Eskdale.

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Southend-on-Sea, Derbyshire and Liverpool are judged to have the worst roads in the country. Meanwhile, Sheffield, Wirral and Leeds have the best road surfaces in Britain.

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