Los Angeles drivers spend almost 4 days per year sitting in traffic

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Los Angeles drivers spend almost 4 days per year sitting in traffic
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Los Angeles is a notoriously traffic-clogged, smog-ridden place to live. But exactly how bad is the city's congestion problem? By a sizable margin it's the worst in the U.S., with average drivers wasting 90 hours per year idling in traffic, according to a new report from GPS company Tom Tom.

Put another way, L.A. drivers with half-hour commutes spend what amounts to 3.75 days-worth of time sitting in bumper-to-bumper gridlock every year. At least that's better than Rio de Janeiro — Tom Tom's most congested American city — where drivers waste 114 hours per year stuck in traffic.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.