Mexico City Crowned the 'Most Traffic Congested City' Agence France-Presse
go to original March 22, 2016

Team Aguri driver and Mexico City native Salvador Duran gives Nicki Shields some tips on how to survive the megacity's congested streets. (CNN)

The big news in TomTom’s annual Traffic Index report, detailing the cities around the world with the most traffic congestion, is that Istanbul has been knocked off the top spot by Mexico City.

Drivers in the Mexican capital can expect to spend on average 59 percent extra travel time stuck in traffic any time of the day, and up to 103 percent (more than double!) in the evening peak periods, compared to a theoretical “free flow” or uncongested situation.

That adds up to an average of 219 hours of extra travel time a year.

Next in the rankings are Bangkok (57 percent), Istanbul (50 percent), Rio de Janeiro (47 percent) and Moscow (44 percent), making up the top five most congested cities in the world. The only two African cities in the top 100 are Cape Town (47th on the list at 30 percent, one percent up from 2014) and Johannesburg (77th on the list at 27 percent, also one percent up from 2014).

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THE FIVE MOST CONGESTED CITIES GLOBALLY IN 2015:

Mexico City - 59 percent

Bangkok - 57 percent

Istanbul - 50 percent

Rio De Janeiro - 47 percent

Moscow - 44 percent

THE FIVE MOST CONGESTED CITIES IN NORTH AMERICA:

Mexico City - 59 percent

Los Angeles - 41 percent

San Francisco - 36 percent

Vancouver - 34 percent

New York - 33 percent

THE FIVE MOST CONGESTED CITIES IN EUROPE:

Moscow - 44 percent

Bucharest - 43 percent

Saint Petersburg - 40 percent

Warsaw - 38 percent

Rome - 38 percent

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