Top 10 Worst Congested UK Cities and Roads Revealed
The average driver in the UK wastes 30 hours of their life sitting in traffic every year, according to a major annual report; but which roads are most to blame?
A worldwide congestion scorecard service called Indrix has produced an annual report, putting the UKs road network under the microscope.
The broader conclusion is that 9 out of the 18 cities analysed showed an increase of congestion on the previous year. Unsurprisingly, London was the worst with a 13% rise, with the average driver sitting idle for 82 hours in 2013, up 10 hours on 2012.
Darren Johnson, a green party London Assembly member believes the solution is to introduce 'a system of pay as you go driving introduced across the whole of London.'
For the first time, we get to see a drilled down top 10 of the worst congested roads in the UK, based on the worst peak period of the day. Again, unsurprisingly all 10 roads reside in the overpopulated capitol of London.
Top 10 worst congested roads in the UK:
Traffic congestion is notably increasing three fold to the rate of employment, prompting warnings from the report that states: ’10-day long traffic jams like we've seen in China and the two-three hour daily commutes that are part of daily life for people in Sao Paolo Brazil today could become the reality for drivers in Europe and North America in the not so distant future’.
Here are the top 10 worst metropolitan areas in the UK:
Here are the top 10 worst metropolitan areas in Europe:
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The report also found trends in their data: ‘Traffic is particularly worst in areas and specific locations where congestion levels remained elevated even at the deepest depths of the recession. Simply put, it appears that congestion in 2013 acted like a magnet where it existed, it had a tendency to attract disproportionately more of it.
‘This applies to both regions and specific roadways, where sharp increases in congestion were recorded even though we're only just now emerging from the Great Recession.’
Taking another step back on a European scale, it was found Belgium was the highest for congestion, with the average driver wasting 58 hours in traffic. The country was followed by the Netherlands, Germany and France, Luxemburg and unfortunately the United Kingdom at six.