{"id":307272,"date":"2026-10-15T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:24:10","slug":"philadelphia-rated-worst-city-for-drivers-of-any-big-city-in-the-u-s-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307272\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia rated worst city for drivers of any big city in the U.S. | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa. &#8211; If you&#8217;ve ever driven to, through, or in Philadelphia, you know it can sometimes be a hassle.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-worst-cities-to-drive-in\/13964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a new study,<\/a> the hassle is the worst of any big city in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Wallet Hub, a personal finance company, came up with four categories. These include costs, including maintenance, traffic and road conditions, safety, and access to mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Philly scored poorly in both costs and access to mechanics, and among the absolute worst in traffic and roads, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>The best big cities to drive in are Scottsdale, Arizona, Boise, Idaho, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s second-biggest city, Pittsburgh, ranks 62nd.<\/p>\n<p>Two cities in New Jersey, including Newark and Jersey City, are back-to-back at 87 and 88.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Philly, at 100 out of 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pa. &#8211; If you&#8217;ve ever driven to, through, or in Philadelphia, you know it can sometimes be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-307272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}