Traffic in the city of Zurich is a perennial political favorite. The left-green government wants to promote pedestrian and bicycle traffic – at the expense of cars. Citizens accuse it of making the city increasingly unbearable for drivers. It is clear that those who travel by car in Zurich usually need nerves of steel.
This is also confirmed by a new study by the car rental company Sixt. In a large-scale analysis, the company evaluated 40 metropolises in Central Europe according to various factors. And finally: Zurich is one of the cities in which drivers have a particularly difficult time.
According to calculations, the traffic jam time during rush hour in the Limmat city is 94 hours per year. Car traffic is stuck longer only in the metropolises of Paris and Rome. For a 10-kilometer journey into the city center of Zurich, it takes an average of 26 minutes and 18 seconds. Again: It takes longer only in Berlin, Rome and Paris.
However, other criteria such as traffic density or the volume of Google searches for directions were included in the analysis. This resulted in an overall index. The lower it is, the more traffic stress drivers experience, reports Blick. The leader is the city of Hamburg (D) – in general, cities perform particularly poorly compared to our neighbors to the north. Six cities in the top ten are in Germany, reports albinfo.ch.
But places like Innsbruck (A), Madrid or Karlsruhe (D) show that things can be done differently. They are considered the most car-friendly cities. For comparison: The travel time for a 10-kilometer route in the Tyrolean capital is around 12 minutes shorter than in Zurich. But a look at the figures also shows: Apart from Madrid, the number of cars in car-friendly cities is usually significantly lower – and a lower traffic density promotes smooth traffic. In the canton of Zurich, for example, 763,711 cars are registered, in Innsbruck it is 45,435.
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