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Brussels Is the Most Congested European City, TomTom Says

The results of the latest traffic study from TomTom are in, revealing the 450 most congested hotspots in Europe. Brussels is still topping the chart as the most grid locked city in Europe and congestion in the Belgian Capital is getting worse, showing a 1.2% increase in traffic since last year.

The report also brings bad news to residents of the UK’s capital as London, in spite of a 0.2% decrease in traffic, climbs up the rankings to take third place in the most congested city list. In fact Edinburgh and Manchester both feature in the top ten. In total, 16 UK cities feature in the top 50 - making Britain undoubtedly 2011's most gridlocked European country.

Elsewhere on the old continent, six of the most congested cities have significantly reduced traffic since last year. The Polish city Wroclaw has seen a 2.6% drop, moving it down to fourth place out of 50. Meanwhile, Toulouse in France has reduced congestion by an impressive 1.9%, making it fifth in the rankings with 33% of roads congested in the city.

If you want to escape the traffic nightmare you might want consider the German city of Cologne, which sits at the bottom of the top 50. Only 18.9% of its roads are congested. But Germany still features six times in the overall list.

Some countries like Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland or the Czech Republic each have only one city in the listing, so it might be a good idea to go there if you want to relax your tired clutch foot.

The research was based on TomTom’s real travel times database, compiled over years of researching and tracking road speeds with the help of millions of TomTom users worldwide. Travel information is sent anonymously to us every day when TomTom users connect their device to TomTom HOME, our free desktop software.
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