You Have The World's Worst Commute. Here's How Bad It Is

LOS ANGELES, CA — No Angeleno would ever be surprised to learn that Los Angeles has the worst gridlock in the world for the sixth year running.

But just how bad is it?

According to a new study by the transportation analytics company INRIX, the average LA commuter spends 102 hours per year stuck in traffic. That’s a four-day weekend getaway, two workouts a week, or 10 whole seasons of binge watching. It’s not just expensive to live in Los Angeles. It’s time-consuming.

But the expense is real too.

According to INRIX, the wear and tear and gas guzzling involved in all that gridlock, costs $2,828 per person and a total of $19.2 billion for the region as a whole.

So what’s the worst commute in Los Angeles? The Santa Monica (10) Freeway, of course. The eastbound 10 between the San Diego (405) Freeway and Harbor (110) Freeway has the worst rush hour slog in all of Los Angeles, according to INRIX.

In its Global Congestion Ranking, INRIX found that Los Angeles had the worst gridlock of 1,360 cities ranked. LA was followed by Moscow and New York (tied at 91 hours), Sao Paulo (86 hours) and San Francisco (79 hours).

Overall, U.S. cities were among 10 of the top 25 cities worldwide with the worst traffic congestion with the average American spending $1,445 per driver to sit in traffic.

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