Spain faces in summer several of the days of greater car traffic of the year. More than 7 million trips are expected in the country during the august bridgewith the afternoon of this Friday, August 12, and the morning of Saturday, August 13, as the most critical moments to be able to suffer the dreaded eternal traffic jams until you reach your destination.
And that our country is not, far from it, one of those that usually suffers from the worst situations of dense traffic. As can happen in Turkish lands, with cities like Istanbul ‘losing’ six days of life every year in their snags.
A trip to the coast of Huelva it can be extended up to two hours, when it is normal to do it in one hour or hour and fifteen minutes, depending on the exact point chosen to spend the holidays; Y get to conil, both by the old AP-4 to Puerto Real, as well as ‘shortening’ by the Jerez-Los Barrios motorway, it can be perfectly extended for over two hours when the usual thing would be to slightly exceed an hour and a half. Summer things.
The truth is that driving causes pleasure in many people. Concentration on driving forces you to forget other concerns, facilitates relaxation, releases dopamine and consequently that sensation of pleasure arrives.
It also brings out the worst in human beings. Even the most restrained citizen is capable of becoming like a basilisk when he drives. And in some places there are more possibilities than in others to undergo this transformation. Where? These are the worst cities to drive in Spain.
In some cities in Turkey, Russia, Colombia or India, more than a hundred hours a year are spent in traffic jams
The latest tomtom studioproduced together with the Graz University of Technology, analyzes the worst cities in the world to get behind the wheel. As we previously noted, in Spain we are quite far from the madness that can be experienced in countries like Turkey, Russia, Colombia or India, where it is normal to spend more than one hundred hours a year stuck in traffic jams, but this does not prevent us from also we have our particular ranking in this regard.
Three Andalusian cities among the ten with the worst traffic
Although Madrid is the most populous city in Spain by far, Barcelona is the one that leads the national ranking of cities with the worst driving conditions. Almost sixty hours a year are stuck in traffic jams in Barcelona.
follow him Palma de Mallorca y Granada, which is the Andalusian city with the most chaotic traffic according to this study. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Murcia, La Coruna, Valencia, SevillaMadrid and Málaga They complete the top ten of this particular blacklist to put us behind the wheel on their roads.
If, on the other hand, what we are looking for is a absolute calm to drive and get our best skills when it comes to circulating without anyone disturbing our tranquility the best place to settle down vitally should be Las Palmas, Santander, Alicante, Vitoria, Gijón, Pamplona, Oviedo or Vigo.
