Americans are no strangers to spending hours of their lives stuck in traffic jams as they make their way to and from work.
Congestion has become so bad in many U.S cities that commuters lose 42 hours a year – around a full week’s work, up from 18 hours in 1982, according to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard.
The worst places for gridlock include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City. Figures from navigation services firm TomTom show they all suffered from rising levels of congestion over the past year. Yet there’s a good reason for having so much traffic on the roads. “We noticed that cities that went up significantly are also employment hot spots,” Nick Cohn, a senior traffic expert at TomTom tells USA Today.