Three German cities are high in the running for most congested traffic, but a new report puts the unwanted crown on Munich, for the second year in a row. The Traffic Scorecard recently released says that motorists in the Bavarian capital spent an average 51 hours in jams, up four hours from 2016.
Hamburg is just behind, with 44 hours, up from 39, while Berlin is just an hour behind. Since both Hamburg and Berlin are states as well as cities, they also got to fight it out in a race Munich’s not eligible for: German state with the most congested highways.
Hamburg was the winner there, with 31,630 kilometres of congestion, up almost 14% from the year before, with Berlin again just behind. Nationally, the ADAC German automobile club estimated, there was a 5% increase to 1,45 million kilometres of congestion.
Some of the rise is blamed on construction projects in urban areas, but there is also a general trend toward more driving…and more cars on the same roads is a sure-fire recipe for the jam no one wants on their toast.
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