Bengaluru is India’s most-congested city

BENGALURU: If you are reading this while you’re stuck in traffic , hold your breath. Yet another study has found that Bengaluru is the country’s most congested and second slowest city.

A research paper, ‘Mobility and congestion in urban India’, published by US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently, revealed that Bengaluru is one of the 20 most-congested cities in India. It is followed by Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. When it comes to traffic speed, Kolkata is the slowest city, followed by Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Varanasi.

The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and other institutions, used Google Maps and analysed 22 million trips in 154 cities in the country.

