If you drive in an urban environment, year after year, you must surely notice the gradual deterioration of the trafficeven if some cities are now reporting significant drops in the same traffic in recent years, notably Paris.
To confirm your impressions, the TomTom Traffic index 2024 annual report gives us some interesting figures on the state of urban traffic in 2023. Surprisingly, he is not great.
Paris remains the busiest city in France ahead of Bordeaux and Lyon. TomTom’s research was based on a regular 10 km round trip home to work during the morning and evening rush hours.
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In the capital, this trip will take an average of 66 minutes per day, which means a loss of time of 31 minutes and 20 seconds per day due to traffic jams. More than a year, it means wasted time in 120-hour traffic jams, or about 5 full days! This is 10 hours and 44 minutes longer than in 2022 for the same reference journey.
In second place, Bordeaux is slightly better, again with 66 minutes per day, or a time loss of 29 minutes and 11 seconds per day due to congestion. More than a year, this means wasted time in traffic jams lasting 111 hours. This is 3 hours and 14 minutes more than in 2022 on the same route.
In the third, Lyon made impressive progress (in the bad sense of the word). For this trip, which takes approximately 53 minutes, a motorist will lose 23 minutes 25 seconds a day to traffic. More than a year, this means wasted time in 89 hours of traffic. This is 6 hours 24 minutes more than in 2022 on the same route.
In some other cities, it is rapidly deteriorating
In other French cities, some motorists are watching the time spent in traffic jams literally explode compared to 2022.
In addition to the examples of Paris and Lyon, in Grenoble a motorist will lose 9 hours 10 minutes on the same journey compared to last year, while in Toulouse he will lose 8 hours 6 minutes and in Clermont 6 hours 43 minutes. Ferran.
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Source: Auto Plus
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