No one likes being stuck in traffic. Yet every day, all around the world, millions of us tap the brakes, sigh, and settle into the bumper-to-bumper.
In recently-released research, London again topped the list of the world’s most congested cities, with residents spending an average 156 hours a year each staring at the back of the car in front, and this is after the introduction of the famous London congestion charge, which has its 20th anniversary this week.
In 2002, “the average time taken to drive across the city was slower than 100 years earlier – before the car was invented,” says Kimberly Nicholas, a sustainability scientist at Lund University.
