Bengaluru ranked sixth in the world for congestion: Report

BENGALURU: TomTom Traffic Index report by a global location technology specialist states that Mumbai is ranked second with Bengaluru at sixth in the list of most congested cities. Delhi and Pune has been put on eighth and sixteenth position with Moscow recording the highest congestion in the world in 2020. The traffic in these four big Indian cities is going back to the pre-COVID levels particularly in the past six months after unlock. The index examined almost 400 cities from 57 countries across the world. Bengaluru was at the top last year but has slipped the table this year due to effects of pandemic. The experts attribute this decline to the pandemic and other related factors like lockdown, work-from-home arrangement and travel restrictions. The data is also an authoritative indicator of people’s movement and shows the revival levels of economic activity in Indian cities.