Traffic jams in British cities are getting worse, and in Manchester evening rush hour journeys are taking 72 per cent longer.
These are the results of the latest survey from Tom Tom, the traffic information Company.
Compared with 2013, congestion in 2014 was worse in 14 of the UK’s 17 biggest cities, with Bristol the only destination where jams had eased slightly.
Congestion levels have got worse over the past year in London, Brighton and Hove, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow and Southampton.
Manchester was the third worst city for jams trailing behind both Belfast and London just ahead of Edinburgh and Brighton.
TomTom said that in 2014 a typical UK city commuter with a 30-minute drive home spent an extra 66 hours stuck in traffic than they would have done on a free-flowing road.
Added to the 63 hours stuck in morning traffic, that amounted to 129 hours wasted in a year.
