If you feel like you spent more time sitting in traffic this year than last, you’re not alone.

Across the United States, drivers lost 49 hours to traffic congestion in 2025, a six-hour increase from the year prior, according to a new report from transportation analytics company INRIX.

From Chicago to Philadelphia and Boston to Tampa, congestion increased in 254 of the 290 cities INRIX analyzed.

But in New York, a city practically synonymous with gridlock, congestion stayed flat.

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INRIX says the anomaly is likely due to congestion pricing, a program that charges drivers tolls when they enter certain, often gridlocked, areas of Manhattan.

New York’s congestion pricing program went into effect January 5. Just one month later, a million fewer vehicles entered the

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