B'luru world’s 2nd slowest city to drive in

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: This is somehting not wholly unexpected by those who drive daily through the city's contested roads.

Bengaluru is the secondslowest city to drive in, according to new research. One can go 10 kilometres in the southern city in 29 minutes and 10 seconds, says TomTom, a Dutch multinational developer of location technology.

The absolutely slowest city to drive in in the word is London, where people take 36 minutes and 20 seconds to go 10 kilometres – the longest time for a journey of that distance out of 389 cities in 56 countries surveyed.

“Analysis of the cost of driving, based on the price of petrol, diesel, and charging an electric vehicle (EV), and taking into account the impact of congestion on fuel consumption, found that London was also the world’s second most expensive city to drive in, behind Hong Kong,” BBC said.

In the third and fourth positions are Dublin, Ireland, at 28 minutes and 30 seconds, and Sapporo, Japan, at 27 minutes and 40 seconds. The study ranked Bengaluru fourth in cities where traffic accounted for lost time. In 2022, Bengaluru lost 129 hours for a round trip (of six miles each) driven at rush hour.

This table was topped by Dublin, with Bucharest and London coming second and third. The state capital is fifth in the table – “Cities with the highest CO2 emissions per driven miles at rush hour”.