Cape Town has landed near the top of a global congestion list, with new data showing the city is now the sixth most congested in the world and motorists spending an average of 96 hours a year stuck in traffic.
The findings come from the latest INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, as relayed by The Star , which examined congestion trends across 942 cities internationally. While Cape Town's traffic levels increased by just 2 compared to last year, congestion has climbed sharply by 16 since 2023, highlighting growing pressure on an already strained road network.
Conditions in the city centre underline the severity of the problem, with peak-hour speeds in the CBD dropping to an average of only 18km/h, turning everyday commutes into long, slow crawls.
