Chicago<\/a> has the worst traffic in America, according to a new analysis, overtaking the previous year\u2019s number one, New York City. <\/p>\n Drivers in the Windy City<\/a> lost at least 112 hours a year in traffic on average, up 10 percent from the previous year and more than double the U.S. average of 49 hours lost to congestion, according to this year\u2019s Global Traffic Scorecard report from transportation metrics firm INRIX. <\/p>\n Traffic<\/a> has weighed heavily on local politics there, too.<\/p>\n Congestion<\/a> around Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport, one of the busiest in the country, has prompted planners to consider altering the timeline<\/a> of an ongoing renovation of the hub scheduled through 2033. A different 2024 report from the Chaddick Institute at DePaul University found that O\u2019Hare had the most traffic growth of any U.S. airport in 2024. <\/p>\n This week, a car crash<\/a> on I-57 in Chicago killed three people and hurt five others<\/a> when a vehicle rammed a group of individuals standing next to the scene of a different wreck. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Chicago ranked as the worst city in the country and one of the worst in the world for traffic delays, according to a new analysis (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n Chicago traffic isn\u2019t bad, just compared to the U.S., though. The city ranks third globally for bad traffic, the report found, behind Mexico City and global leader Istanbul. <\/p>\n Back in the U.S., the other cities with the worst traffic were, in descending order, as follows: New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Washington, and Seattle.<\/p>\n Baltimore and Philadelphia both saw the largest congestion increases among the top 25 cities on the list, with traffic delays rising by 31 percent in both areas.<\/p>\n Together, congestion in these cities costs the drivers more than $85 billion in lost productivity, an 11.3 percent increase over 2024. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Heavy traffic has prompted planners to consider overhauling an ongoing renovation of Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Drivers lost around 4.7 billion hours due to traffic in the U.S., according to the report.<\/p>\n Certain corridors were also particularly bad, with both directions of I-95 near Stamford, Connecticut, ranking as the busiest in the country, followed by I-278 in New York City and I-4 near Orlando, Florida. <\/p>\n New York\u2019s recently implemented congestion pricing plan is thought to have kept it from ranking higher on the list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-615239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115670858543455706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chicago](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/APTOPIX_Extreme_Winter_Weather_39441.jpg\")
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