Poles lost PLN 3.8 billion in traffic jams
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It has been revealed that drivers lost PLN 3.8 billion per year because of traffic jams in the seven biggest Polish cities.
Deloitte and Targeo.pl conducted an analysis and it showed that people driving in Warsaw, Łódź, Wrocław Kraków, Katowice, Poznań, Gdańsk in 2015, had lost approximately PLN 14.6 million per day, consequently PLN 321 million per month and more than PLN 3.8 billion in total throughout the year. It's equal to 0.19 percent of GDP.
"It seems that traffic problem appears in all major cities in Poland. In comparison with last year's survey, the cost of traffic jams in seven cities increased by 12 percent," said Rafal Mikołajczak from Indigo.
Data for the study came from 100,000 vehicles, traveling over 29,000 km of roads. It was carried out in October 2015.
