{"id":53929,"date":"2025-11-20T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:49:21","slug":"tampa-ranked-worst-city-in-u-s-for-holiday-traffic-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53929\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa ranked worst city in U.S. for holiday traffic: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A report from Consumer Affairs ranked Tampa the worst city to drive in during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A significant contributing factor is the city&#8217;s huge jump in traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report also cites road rage as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A new report from Consumer Affairs has ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tampa<\/a> as the worst city to drive in during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report compiled data based on traffic volume, congestion and fatal crashes and Tampa nabbed the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By the numbers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Consumer Affairs report, from quarter to quarter, congestion worsened by 36% during the holiday season, the second-largest increase in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another factor considered in this study was road rage, as Consumer Affairs ranks Florida as one of the worst states for road rage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/whether-hitting-road-catching-flight-be-aware-years-holiday-travel-forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Whether driving or flying, be aware of the holiday travel forecast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Whether driving or flying, be aware of the holiday travel forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report also mentions that drivers in Tampa also face longer driving sessions.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;File: Tampa traffic&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/da4e6ac28df6a830e549ebda35793840.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On average, Tampa drivers travel 27.6 miles per day during November and December. At Christmas, the researchers saw the largest spike in miles driven, at a 24% increase compared to the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the study, Tampa also contributes to a high rate of fatal crashes, even on clear-weather days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/dj-shot-killed-ybor-city-road-rage-incident-remembered-friends-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DJ shot, killed in Ybor City road rage incident remembered by friends and family;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DJ shot, killed in Ybor City road rage incident remembered by friends and family<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 21 fatal crashes occur per 1 million people according to Consumer Affairs, ranking it the third worst for fatal crashes. While weather-related crashes account for 4.7 per 1 million people, according to this study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Researchers found on the holidays, congestion on average lasts 4 hours and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The top five worst traffic cities during the holidays according to the study are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orlando ranks 15th on the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/automotive\/cities-with-the-worst-holiday-traffic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a> for the full report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This study looked at the increases in traffic around the holidays, not just identifying cities with the worst traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This information in this story was gathered from a Consumer Affairs report on &#8220;The U.S. cities with the worst holiday traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A report from Consumer Affairs ranked Tampa the worst city to drive in during the holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33785,33786,13828,135,137,136,3743,33787],"class_list":["post-53929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-consumer-affairs","tag-fatal-crashes","tag-holiday-season","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-traffic-congestion","tag-traffic-volume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}