Chattanooga commuters wasted more time and gas than ever before while sitting in snarled traffic in 2024, and Tennessee's fourth-largest town ranks in the top 101 U.S. cities for delays, with commuters as a group logging more than 14 million hours idling at the wheel, according to a recent transportation report.

The pandemic that swept the world in 2020 changed the way people across the U.S. travel, and it stuck, leading to an increase in traffic delays and changing trends, the report and its author said. The same is true for Chattanooga, which ranks 91st in the nation for individual commuter delays but remains the least congested of Tennessee's four major cities because traffic delays are up everywhere.

Each commuter trundling through the Scenic City in 2024 spent an average of 51 hours

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