Are you tired of spending hours in traffic? This city in France is known for being the least congested.
Over the course of a year, many French people spend more than 100 hours in city center traffic, when they take their car during rush hour, whether in the morning to go to work or in the evening. The road navigation specialist, TomTom, published this Wednesday January 10 its 2023 ranking dedicated to road traffic in 387 cities across 55 countries. The experts of course looked at France and more precisely at 25 cities in France.
Unsurprisingly, it is Paris which wins the prize for the most congested city. In city centers and during rush hour, a driver spent an average of 120 hours in traffic jams in 2023. Specialists have calculated “an average time spent traveling a 10 km journey twice a day during rush hour”. Those which come in second and third place: Bordeaux (111 hours) and Lyon (89), two other large, very congested cities.
However, traffic jams are not always an inevitable problem, since not all French metropolises are impacted. Indeed, certain cities are slightly spared from this scourge. Among them: Le Havre and Le Mans each accumulate an average of 40 hours lost in traffic jams over a year. Just behind, the leader in navigation solutions recorded the city of Reims, with 36 hours lost in its stationary car. First place for the least congested municipality goes to Saint-Etienne, located southwest of Lyon. As for Reims, we count 36 hours lost driving in Saint-Etienne at the busiest times. But this city in France also climbs to the top of the ranking, because it beats the others in terms of “average travel time per 10 km” with only 13 minutes. So if you are planning to move and change regions, you now know where to go to spend as little time as possible in your vehicle.