San Diego traffic isn’t that bad.
Why it matters: No one likes sitting in their car, but a new report shows San Diego drivers can get where they’re going fairly quickly compared to other major metro areas, and that’s one headwind facing efforts to boost transit ridership.
Driving the news: It took San Diego drivers an average of about 11 minutes to drive 6 miles in the city in 2024, according to TomTom’s annual traffic index, released Tuesday.
- That’s about about nine seconds longer than in 2023 but still a far cry from traffic-choked cities like New York and San Francisco, where it took nearly three times as long.
By the numbers: San Diego ranked 56th among major U.S. cities, right between Orlando, Florida and Cincinnati, Ohio…