Drivers in the US has to cough up $ 1,200 a year on an average due to traffic jams resulting in fuel waste and time.
Quoting a study by INRIX Inc a foreign news agency said that the latest edition of its Global Traffic Scorecard report was based on 500 terabytes of data from 300 million sources.
Five of the world’s 10 most congested cities are in the United States, INRIX study says.
According to the study the drivers in California city of Los Angeles drivers spent an average of 104 peak drive-time hours fighting slow traffic during 2016. That put Los Angeles at the top of the list of cities where drivers spent the most hours stuck in slow rush hour traffic.
According to the study drivers in Moscow spent 25.2 percent of their total driving hours on congested roads, while Los Angeles motorists spent 12.7 percent of their total driving time in slow traffic.
New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway is the worst stretch of road in the United States where drivers on the 4.7 mile (7.5 km) road spent an average of 86 hours a year staring at the bumper of the car ahead.
