Money Barn’s Ranking of Fastest and Slowest Road Traffic: South Africa Ranks 33rd

2023-06-02 18:58:00

A track record to enrage the driving enthusiasts. Car finance company Money barn has revealed which countries have the slowest and fastest road traffic in the world. An African state is mentioned there: South Africa, which finds itself in the soft underbelly of the ranking.

The Rainbow Nation is indeed the 33rd slowest country in the world. It is especially handicapped by the state of its roads and its speed limits. The highest authorized speed there is 120 km/h, whereas in the United Arab Emirates, for example, the most daring can drive… at more than 160 km/h!

In terms of traffic jams, South Africa is doing quite well, with a congestion rate estimated at 18%. India or Romania do much worse, approaching 50%.

Elsewhere on the globe, Peru is the country with the slowest road traffic, ahead of Romania. A paradox since the latter country also has one of the most beautiful roads in the world: the Transfagarașan, which crosses the Carpathians, recalls Money barn.

Conversely, the United States and the United Arab Emirates are the countries with the fastest road traffic. The latter benefit in particular from cheap fuel thanks to their oil reserves, offering the possibility to its wealthy inhabitants to invest in very high-end cars, often gas-guzzling.

The state of South African roads had already been pointed out in early May by the BusinessTech media, which had accused the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) of facing a “fiscal cliff” to the point of no longer being able to take care of the maintenance.

An assertion immediately denied by the spokesperson for Sanral, Vusi Mona, who had deplored the “malicious” intentions of the BusinessTech article, recalling that the agency derived its mandate directly from the government.

Sanral currently manages nearly 23,500 km of roads, the provinces being responsible for 271,500 km of roads.

1685760311
#Road #traffic #African #country #among #slowest #world