A study found that in central London, a journey of 10km took an average of 37 minutes and 20 seconds – making it the world’s slowest city for drivers
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A study found that in central London, a journey of 10km took an average of 37 minutes and 20 seconds – making it the world’s slowest city for drivers
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> TomTom noted that London’s 20mph speed limits were the main cause for its snail’s pace
Definitely not the traffic. Definitely not.
Remember, you’re not in traffic, you are traffic
You’re also clogging up Z1 and Z2 for people who live or work there
Fantastic news. The worse it is for drivers, the more likely it is there will be less of them. Throttle central London driving out of existence.
Good. Then maybe they’ll stop driving and clogging up the city.
World’s slowest. Heh. Yeah I too have never been to Cairo or Lagos.
[The Tom Tom index doesn’t cover Africa].
Morons, the more you sit in traffic the more you pollute, duh
That list makes for some pretty surprising reading. I want to know where the hell in Mumbai you can travel 10km in just 21 minutes and 20 seconds? I found it normally took around 90 minutes to travel 20km… And that was using the Bandra Worli Sea Link which seemed to be the fastest moving strip of road in the city by some margin.
Good.
to be fair the streets are so narrow and cumbersome that they are always clogged. not to mention the endless constructions in every corner
Companies used to have to pay for advertising now they just pump out guaranteed culture war clickbait and rely on lazy editors to do their work for them.
Not slow enough
Damn… Manila lost to London… I was so confident that Manila would win in this horrible metric.
Since the rise of big SUVs in the past 5-6 years it’s gone from bad to worse. People also just drive very slowly with them because they’re so big, and they’re very sluggish with stop start city driving. Little things like a traffic light that would allow 8 cars through now does 4 because of vehicle size, weight and changes in driving behaviour all adds up.
I’ve also noticed there isn’t really a quiet period anymore during the weekday. Maybe 10:30-11:30 at best. The roads are busy in the morning with school and commuters. Busy during lunch. Busy from 14:00 onwards because of school again.
Also never ending road works, which you’re told will end at a certain time but more often than not last one or two months longer. Compounded by the traffic light problem explained earlier.
Big, heavy cars with shit auto transmissions that take a year to go from 0-5 mph is the death of urban driving. That includes EV’s. Now every car on the road has the driving behaviour of a bus or lorry.
It’s mostly caused by extreme over funnelling of traffic. Studies have shown that if you leave most roads open, there’s usually less congestion as you are giving drivers multiple options. What I’ve observed however driving around central is we have too many one ways and lots of no entries in areas where rich people live. You end up causing what I call the “Waze” effect, where everyone is sent on one or two possible roads only out of say 30 possible options if they were not funnelled.