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GENERIC TRAFFIC H-1 FREEWAY
Traffic backed up on the H-1 freeway in both directions due to road work and accidents on March 18. Navigation device maker TomTom found Honolulu to be the third-most traffic-congested city in North America, in its 2012 Congestion Index, released today. (Krystle Marcellus / kmarcellus@staadvertiser.com)
Honolulu traffic is third-worst in America, according to in-car navigation device-maker TomTom.
Honolulu moved down from the second-place ranking it received in the first quarter of the year, the company found, replaced by San Francisco which had been third.
Los Angeles, still at No. 1, saw traffic increase by 2 percent to its highest level in six years.
The TomTom study examined traffic in 169 cities across six continents, including 53 U.S. markets with populations exceeding 800,000.
Drivers around the world lose an average of eight work days, or 64 hours stuck in traffic, while based on the Los Angeles figures, U.S. cities have a maximum average loss of 92 hours, or 11.5 days.
