Chart of the day: Worst traffic woes found mostly in New Core economies

Bloomberg Businessweek blurb on global traffic (image blow-up below).

The numbers suggest a profound shifting of woes from Old Core to New.

The US adds 2% more cars from 2003 to 2007, while China adds 113%, for example, so the traffic-suffering indices presented here show America's worst case, NYC, coming nowhere near the complaint level of your average New Core capital, whose woes are only going to get dramatically worse in coming years.

Comments

[Pete Johnson]

Over the last few years I am supporting projects in Poland, Turkey, and India. By far the worst traffic is in India. The Americans I work with look at taking an auto-rickshaw or crossing a street, every day things to the Indians of all ages, as an accomplishment, it can be that scary. New York, is more like an orderly church progression in comparison.