Cars waste time
The time wasted in congestion costs $1,622 for the average Chicago driver and $5.8 billion for the city [1]. In Japan, when heavy snowfall disrupted the roads, the drivers were trapped for 40 hours [2]. A study in Moscow, Russia found that the average driver lost 210 hours of congestion in 2018. Drivers in Bogota lost the most time of anyone in the world: 272 hours [3]. These long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia [4].
Check out this GIF on how buses transport more people than cars.
Top Gear made a video on which form of transport is the fastest in London. It’s no surprise that cars come dead last [5]. Here’s another video where it’s a race between cars, bike and public transport where the car comes last [6].