San Diego’s traffic may be getting worse, but it’s far better than Los Angeles and not bad compared to many smaller American cites, according to a new report on global traffic.
INRIX Research ranked Los Angeles traffic the worst in the United States — and the world — followed by New York and San Francisco. San Diego came in barely 15th, just ahead of Austin, TX.
San Diegans wasted an average of 46 hours a year in congested traffic, compared to 104 hours for Angelenos. The average across the United States was 42 hours.
“Los Angeles tops the list of the world’s most gridlocked cities,” the study noted, with I-10 eastbound between I-405 and I-110 among the most congested stretches in the world.
The study, billed as the largest of its kind, ranked the impact of congestion across five continents, 38 countries and 1,064 cities.
