Polish cities most congested for their size in the world
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- 16 Feb 2023
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Three cities in Poland have the most congested central streets in the world among municipalities with a population below 800,000, a new global traffic ranking has found.
In Wrocław, it took drivers an average of 24 minutes and 30 seconds to travel just 10 kilometres through the city centre, according to the 2022 TomTom Traffic Index, which measures traffic in 389 cities across 56 countries.
That made Wrocław’s traffic worse than any other city in the world classified as “small” by TomTom. The second and third worst were also in Poland: Łódź, with an average time of 22 minutes and 20 seconds to travel 10 km, and Kraków, with 21 minutes and 40 seconds.
Drivers who have a daily commute in Wrocław city centre would have spent an average of 235 hours in rush hour traffic last year, finds the report. In Łódź the figure was 211 hours and in Kraków 208 hours.
Among all cities, the worst city centre traffic was in London, where it took 36 minutes and 20 seconds to travel 10 km in the city centre.
However, while London is classified as a “megacity” with a population over 8 million, Polish cities are relatively small. Only two, Warsaw (where it takes 20 minutes to travel 10 km in the city centre) and Katowice urban area (12 minutes 10 seconds) are classified as “large”, with ten more in the “small” category.
In all twelve Polish cities in the report, city centre traffic was worse in 2022 than in 2021, with Łódż (1 minute 10 seconds) and Warsaw (1 minute) seeing the biggest increases in the time it took to travel 10 km. The lowest amount of city-centre congestion was found in Katowice and Bielsko-Biała. Read More…
