According to the latest traffic stats, Johannesburg commuters are doing better at avoiding congestion than in previous years, while Cape Town and Pretoria are fighting hard for the top spot of South Africa’s most congested city. | News24_Business
Some South African commuters are now spending the equivalent of six full days a year in traffic jams, new traffic data shows.
Each year, GPS company TomTom ranks traffic in 390 cities - including several in South Africa. It does so using"floating car data" that it collects from various sources, which it samples to create a global index. puts the UK, India, Ireland, Japan, and Italy as the worst places to drive during rush hour, where an average one-way, 10km commute can take as long as 36 minutes.
Pretoria commuters take an average of 16 minutes to travel just 10km, at an average speed of 32 km/h, according to TomTom. This translates into 145 hours, or six days, spent in rush hour per year - and is 40 seconds longer than the same journey would have taken in 2021. In 2022, Cape Town traffic increased by 1min 10s compared to 2021 - the most significant jump for any South African city. The nearest competitors for year-on-year increases were sitting around the 40-second mark.
On average, it takes Joburg commuters 13 minutes 40 seconds to complete a 10km journey. And residents there spend 123 hours per year in traffic - nearly one full day less per year than Pretoria and 13 hours less than Cape Town.
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