19:27 29 January 2020
Łódź still most gridlocked city in Poland: report
Łódź again tops the ranking of the most gridlocked cities in Poland, indicated in the annual TomTom Traffic Index report. The authors of the study indicated that the level of traffic jams in this city increased by 3% during the year, which means that drivers driving in Łódź the streets can expect the extending of travel time by an average of 47 percent, compared to standard road traffic.
In the Polish ranking covering 12 cities, Łódź is followed by Kraków (45 percent), Poznań (44 percent), Warsaw (40 percent), Wrocław (39 percent), Bydgoszcz (34 percent), the Tri-City (33 percent), Szczecin (30 percent), Lublin (27 percent) and Białystok (26 percent).
The ranking of the most crowded cities in Europe opens Moscow (59% more time) before Istanbul (55%) and Kyiv (53%). In turn, the world's most gridlocked city in 2019 is Bengaluru. Drivers of this Indian metropolis spend on average 71 percent of the extra time in traffic jams.
(PAP)
