UK roads are the busiest in Europe, new figures suggest with three domestic cities, make the list of the top 10 of the most congested urban areas continent.
Despite its congestion charge, London is Britain's most congested city - wird.Edinburgh come in fourth on the list led by Brussels and the Polish cities Warsaw and Wraclow she completed top five, while Belfast ranked seventh and Birmingham is 13.
Other British cities on the list of 59 include Cardiff (26), Leeds (29), Sheffield (34) and Glasgow (45).
Compiled by sat nav maker TomTom, the rankings from anonymous data to the company will be sent, if users connect their machines to their home computers berechnet.Das company defines traffic jams when driver at 70 travel % or less of the local speed limit, and says that an accurate picture of travel time information provides its information.
It adds that drivers more than 20 minutes of significant would delay in a one-hour trip face in congested cities.
And the problem is set only worse, according to the RAC Foundation Director Stephen Gleister.
The British population will grow from two million recent based on the Government forecasts 2008 expected to 71.6 million of 2033 every five years.
Professor Gleister said Radio 4's today programme that this growth in the population would generate more movement and more congestion - particularly at local level.
"Most, that demand on the road network to be," he said.
"So you have to decide what you do about it and not put your head in the sand and hope it is going away - all because it is not."
"It's not just about pouring concrete - many streets are sufficient."
"We need in many cases better management of the roads we have is: more money where it is reasonably more quickly on clearing up incidents, managing the flow...""Standard strip running from highways - you can do much, but it costs money."
However, Professor Gleister added road pricing "helps" distribute peak time traffic at other times of day when roads are more quiet
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