FILE - Traffic moves along Interstate 80 on Feb. 16, 2022 in Berkeley, California. Sitting in traffic is not exactly America’s favorite pastime but man do we spend a lot of time doing it.
Tomtom, a GPS manufacturer that keeps track of traffic patterns and ranks urban congestion worldwide, created a list of cities that deal with congestion from worst to least worst because there’s no such thing as having the best traffic.
As states begin to do away with COVID-19 restrictions and companies start resuming in-office operations, congestion has unsurprisingly increased since January 2019, according to data collected by Tomtom.While the top 10 cities did show increases in the amount of time people spent sitting in rush hour traffic between 2019 and 2021, the increase is still less than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In New York, congestion levels were at 35% in 2021 which is actually down compared to 2019 which was 37%, according to Tomtom.