I live in São Paulo and although traffic here is really awful I think the 4-hour figure you present as normal is very exagerated. I live in the east zone and used to work on the other side of the metropolitan region, after the west zone, in a adjacent city called Barueri, and it never took me more than two hours by car - it's still a ridiculously long time, I know that, but it is not even near the four hour mark you present which I've only heard of in days of catastrophes like massive floodings (which may happen at certain times of the year).

That's awfull

"Overall, Russia's road-accident mortality rate is more than twice as high as the rest of the European Union -- despite the fact that Russians have about a third the amount of cars." The use of "the rest of the European Union" implies that Russia is part of the EU, which obviously is not the case. Just felt that that should be pointed out and corrected.

Communist officials in limousines are still contibuting to traffic problems in Moscow...wouldn't have thought there were many left.

And Manila would probably qualify to be on this list.

Is actually from Shanghai, in case anyone's interested.

Whoa! People would be moving faster when walking. lol
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I belive when people well educated and not smash the traffic. Problems will be cleaned.

Anybody living in the Lekki/Epe Expressway axis can verify to the truth of the piece on Lagos. 3-4hrs on the road on ONE leg of the journey is not unheard of. It is simply horrendous. The traffic on the 3rd mainland bridge, the longest bridge in Africa, is also regularly awful. In fact, it very much feels like one spends half his life on the road these days!

Until you've seen traffic in Jakarta, you haven't seen traffic... Having said that I guess China has the longest traffic jam in history going on at the moment, but that's because of road construction. For day to day sports bets traffic, Jakarta's about the worst I`ve seen. Makes this picture look like a Sunday drive in the country...?

5 places where soul-crushing gridlock is a way of life is the right problem for an article. "Nineteen and might continue for another month Life in the slow lane: The ongoing jam on National Expressway 110, which links Beijing and North China's Hebei province, caused by construction and a number of accidents, has shocked the world. But Beijingers are used to epic-scale gridlock. Despite the city's 6 surrounding ring roads, numerous expressways, and the government's restrictions on car use, urban planners simply cannot keep up with the massive influx of new cars that many of Beijing's approximately twenty million increasingly wealthy people (many of whom have never driven a car before) have recently bought." the worlds worst traffic is actually a highly sensitive topic and We should try to deal with it as neutrally as possible. Even though I more write about break up, cheap ink cartridges and home insurance quotes, I simply wanted to say that I see the study in the the worlds worst traffic blog post.