The Peruvian capital closed the previous year as the city with the greatest traffic congestion in Latin America. Not only the drivers’ economy is affected by the chaos, as CO₂ emissions also increased.
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On average, citizens residing In Metropolitan Lima they invest S/2,368 a year to move around in their vehiclesaccording to Alberto Morisaki, manager of Economic Studies and Statistics of the Automotive Association of Peru (AAP).
Of this amount, at the end of 2023, S/652 responds to an additional expense caused by saturated vehicular traffic (more than S/70 than what was seen in 2022).
Lima closed 2023 as the city with the highest traffic in Latin America and the fifth in the world, according to the 2023 Congestion Index of the private firm TomTom, to the point that driving during rush hour takes, annually, 283 hours On average per car: 157 hours correspond to additional time.
“In addition, the CO₂ emissions produced annually by an average car that travels during rush hour is 1,035 kg.of which 297 kg corresponds to the additional time generated by congestion,” he noted.
Morisaki points out that the capital has structural deficiencies that generate high traffic congestion, which have not been resolved or attended to efficiently, such as inadequate road design and planning, the deficient traffic light system — which should be a coordinated traffic light network and is not is currently—the informality in public transportation and its defective connectivity between routes, among others.
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Source: Larepublica
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