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你想吃包子还是饺子？

British writer Bill Bryson once wrote that "London is a city of endless possibility" — and perhaps, endless traffic?

The UK capital is the most congested city in Europe, according to transport analytics company Inrix.

The company looked at data from different cities around the world, and found that drivers in London spent an average of 101 hours sitting in traffic in 2024. That's up from 99 hours in 2023, and 97 hours in 2022.

According to Inrix, these delays cost the city more than $4.8 billion a year — or about $1,200 for each of London's 4 million drivers.

Inrix says London's bad traffic congestion is caused by the "concentration of population, employment and economic activity."

But although it's Europe's most congested city for the fourth year in a row, London has improved in the global rankings. It was third in the world in 2023, but is now in fifth place globally. It is still, however, the only European city in the top five.

Istanbul has jumped to first place, up from sixth, with drivers in the Turkish city spending an average of 105 hours in traffic per year.

New York and Chicago are next on the list, followed by Mexico City in fourth place.

Inrix also calculated each city's "downtown speed" — that is, the speed at which a driver can expect to travel 1.6 kilometers in the center of the city during morning rush hour.

For each of the top five cities, the downtown speed was under 25 kilometers an hour.

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London Drivers Spend 101 Hours in Traffic a Year

Here are 99 Swedish verbs in infinitive, present tense and past tense (preteritum). 

You can listen and repeat as much as possible. Each verb has a sentence that goes along with it. 

Enjoy! 

Just Started Learning Swedish/A1 Svenskan  

99 Svenska Verb 

¿Tú montas muchos pollos? ¿O conoces a alguien que lo haga? Probablemente sí...

Expresiones en español

Montar un pollo

Uma aventura que podia ter acabado em tragédia! Tudo aconteceu quando um jovem brincava às escondidas! 

Aprenda Português Com Notícias Insólitas e Malucas -Learn Portuguese With Crazy Isoteric News 

Adolescente desaparece enquanto brinca às escondidas e aparece uma semana depois num país diferente

In today's episode I would like to discuss "Mother's day and why it is so important to people".

Let's have a chat (Discussions In English) 

Episode 10: Happy Mother's Day. What do people do on Mother's day?

在这一集中有一只昆虫：一只蝴蝶。为什么呢？好吧...你得听下去才知道 :) 

西班牙语表达

A otra cosa mariposa

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