Los Angeles, Moscow top list of most congested cities

The average human can walk at about 3.1 miles per hour (5 km/h), so you can see what rush-hour traffic can mean in Dublin.

This is according to the TomTom Traffic Index 2017‚ the annual report detailing the cities around the world with the most traffic congestion.

The study – the largest ever of its kind – also gave a global list with Los Angeles the most congested city in the world, followed by Moscow and NY. It examined 1,064 cities across 38 countries in one of the largest traffic studies ever conducted.

Dublin ranks 151 and drives spend an average of 31.4 hours per year in congested traffic.

Authorities in Moscow recently introduced paid parking in the city, which helped ease traffic congestion.

Now, don’t get us wrong.

“Despite the high costs of congestion in NY and other cities, American drivers, in general, have it easier than their German counterparts”, the report read.

And which cities must face such a cruel fate?

And while that fantastic opening musical number on a gridlocked Los Angeles freeway is great fun to watch on the silver screen, sitting in traffic is not fun at all in reality – and when it comes to vehicle congestion, L.A.is literally the worst place in the world.

Traffic jams in Los Angeles may have inspired that wonderful dance number in “La La Land”, but real-life pictures depict a much less romantic situation.

Washington, Dallas, Boston, Chicago and lastly Seattle rounded out the top 10.

And with more people driving and logging more miles, it should not come as a big surprise that the US has the worst traffic congestion problem of any developed country on the planet. That topped second-place Moscow at 91 hours and third-place NY at 89, according to a traffic scorecard compiled by Inrix, a transportation analytics firm. The average driver wasted 104 hours sitting in gridlock during the busiest commuting times previous year, and lost $2,408 each in squandered fuel and productivity.

London is the UK’s third most-congested city, with journey times on average increasing by 40% compared with clear roads.

“Traffic truly is a double-edged sword”, added Bob Pishue, a senior economist with the firm.

The U.S. also holds about half of the cities in the top 10 most congested traffic list.