Detroit ranked worst city to drive in

Caroline Blackmon | Detroit Free Press

If you've ever been stuck in traffic on I-94 and sat there cursing other drivers, your car and your passengers, then you may be happy to know those emotions have been validated by a study.

Detroit has been ranked the worst city in America to drive in, according to a report by WalletHub. It compared the 100 largest cities in the United States across 29 key indicators of driver friendliness, ranging from average gas prices to average traffic delays to repair shop access.

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WalletHub then broke it down into four dimensions: safety; traffic and infrastructure; cost of ownership, and maintenance and access to vehicles and maintenance.

Detroit comes in the bottom 15 for three of those four dimensions.

Detroit was ranked in 99th place for safety, also coming in a three-way tie with Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Oakland, California, for the city with the highest car-theft rate.

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The city also came in 96th place for traffic and infrastructure and 86th place for cost of ownership and maintenance.

Even with Ford, GM and FCA US headquartered in metro Detroit, Detroit still came in 47th place for access to vehicles and maintenance.

Despite growing gas prices and more access to public transportation in cities across America, people still choose traveling by car because of "comfort and reliability," according to curbed.com.

In fact, 87 percent of daily trips take place in personal vehicles, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Also, Americans spent an average of 17,600 minutes driving in 2016, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. That's equivalent to a seven-week vacation for a full-time worker.