{"id":13426,"date":"2014-06-03T22:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2014-06-03T22:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:09:36","slug":"study-says-vancouver-is-home-to-worst-gridlock-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/03\/study-says-vancouver-is-home-to-worst-gridlock-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Study says Vancouver is home to worst gridlock in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13506\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vancouver-gridlock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13506\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vancouver-gridlock.jpg\" alt=\"Vancouver has the worst traffic situation in Canada? Photo courtesy of Car Driven.\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vancouver-gridlock.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vancouver-gridlock-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vancouver has the worst traffic situation in Canada? Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardriven.ca\/news\/vancouver-named-worst-in-canada-for-traffic-congestion\/\">Car Driven<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; A new study is out suggesting Vancouver is the worst city in Canada for gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom &#8212; a Dutch-based company which specializes in navigation and mapping products &#8212; issued its fourth annual traffic index today.<\/p>\n<p>It says in Vancouver, the average person experiences 87 hours of delay time a year, based on a 30 minute daily commute.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom also says traffic shortcuts drivers take to avoid congestion are actually &#8220;long cuts,&#8221; adding 50 per cent more travel time to journeys.<\/p>\n<p>The study also suggests gridlock on secondary roads is worse than main roads, and commuters around the world spend an average of eight working days a year stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>After Vancouver, says TomTom, the most congested cities in Canada are Toronto, then Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Quebec City and Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow tops the international list, followed by Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Palermo, Warsaw, Rome, Los Angeles and Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; A new study is out suggesting Vancouver is the worst city in Canada for gridlock. TomTom &#8212; a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[4569,4568,572],"class_list":["post-13426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","tag-gridlock","tag-traffic-jam","tag-vancouver","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}