The Brief
- The Tampa Bay area ranks 13th-worst when it comes to populous metropolitan areas with bad traffic, a ConsumerAffairs study says.
- The Oklahoma-based research team looked at three factors: average commute times, daily hours of congestion, and the rate of fatal car crashes.
- Tampa was ranked #24 last year, which means the city jumped up 11 spots this year.
TAMPA – A study by ConsumerAffairs ranked Tampa as having the 13th-worst traffic after studying data in the nation’s 50 most populous metropolitan areas.
“The biggest thing that we saw and what led to (Tampa) getting their traffic rank being so much worse this year was congestion getting significantly worse,” ConsumerAffairs media relations specialist Lauren Jobe told FOX 13.
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