Bengaluru ranked world’s second-most congested city in 2025: TomTom
Bengaluru: Bengaluru has been ranked the second-most congested city in the world in 2025, behind only Mexico City, according to the latest TomTom Traffic Index, which tracks global traffic congestion and commuting trends.
The city’s ranking has worsened steadily in recent years, slipping from sixth place in 2023 to third in 2024, before rising to second place this year, despite the Karnataka government positioning Bengaluru as a technology forward global city.
The report shows that average peak-hour speeds in Bengaluru fell to 13.9 kmph in 2025, down by 1 kmph from the previous year. On average, commuters took 36 minutes and nine seconds to travel 10 km, over two minutes longer than in 2024.
The city’s congestion level, which measures additional travel time caused by traffic, stood at 74.4%, up 1.7% points year-on-year. The study estimated that motorists lost around 168 hours annually during peak traffic hours.
Dublin followed Bengaluru in the global congestion rankings. Among Indian cities, Pune ranked fifth while Mumbai placed eighteenth, recording average speeds of 18 kmph and 20.8 kmph respectively.
May 17, a Saturday, was identified as Bengaluru’s most congested day of the year, when congestion peaked at 101% and drivers needed 15 minutes to travel just 2.5 km during the evening rush.
The report also highlighted that commuting 10 km takes about 41 minutes during morning peak hours and nearly 45 minutes during the evening rush.
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Governor’s speech: BJP has no moral right to criticize us, says Congress MLC BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: The verbal tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka unit and the Congress over Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot limiting his address before the Legislature on Thursday to just two sentences has continued, with senior Congress MLC BK Hariprasad sharing on his Facebook page earlier instances of what he called misbehavior by the BJP in the House.
Hariprasad on Thursday opined on the social media page that the BJP Karnataka had no moral right to comment on discipline, dignity and honour of the Legislature and cited episodes related to the objectionable behavior by the Opposition party members.
“Which party was it, whose members tore clothes in the House and joined hands and behaved like gangsters? Which party did the people who watched blue films in the House instead of discussing the serious problems in the state, thereby shaming the state before the nation, belong to? To which party did the people who tore documents and threw them on the face of the Speaker only to be suspended belong to?” he asked in his post.
“Does the BJP have the courage to say with pride that these people, with such discipline, culture, dignity and honour, are its members?” Hariprasad has added.
He further said that the state was going through a dark phase in its political history as the BJP had been misusing the Constitutional powers of the Governor.
“The Governor enjoys his power from the tax-payers’ money and not from the free money that goes to an unregistered organization in Nagpur. We will continue to defend our rights, be it against the Governor or any other person in a Constitutional post, who acts against the Constitution,” he said, and added, “We are not so deprived of morality that we have to learn it from the BJP. Congress will never face such a day.”
