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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia drivers lost more hours due to being behind the wheel in congested traffic than people living in all but two other American cities, as well as those in all but 15 cities worldwide.
However, it looks like that amount of hours lost in Philadelphia traffic is a lot less this year than it was before COVID-19.
A study by Inrix shows that Philadelphia drivers are losing an average of 90 hours in congested traffic this year.
That ranks third in America behind Chicago, where drivers have been stuck in traffic for 104 hours, and New York, which has 102 hours lost to traffic congestion this year.
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Overall, the congestion has cost Philadelphia drivers an average of $1,404 this year, and cost the city as a whole $3.3 billion.
London has the world's worst traffic congestion, with 148 hours lost due to slow traffic.
Philadelphia's amount of hours lost to slow traffic is 37% less than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that was also reflected nationally.
At the same time, drivers in the United States saved $564 per driver this year from not driving in congested traffic as much, compared to $1,374 in 2019.
Overall, the study says Americans lost 3.4 billion total hours in traffic this year.
