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Because of COVID-19 and its stay-at-home orders, delays caused by traffic congestion in the Salt Lake metro area plummeted by a steep 31% last year, a new study says.
In 2019 before the pandemic, congestion typically added 5.7 minutes to a trip that would take 30 minutes in clear conditions in the Salt Lake area. In 2020, that dropped to 3.6 minutes.
That’s according to a global study by TomTom, a Netherlands-based navigation software company, based on data from drivers who use its navigation devices.
“Last year, we announced that global congestion levels in 2019 had increased for the ninth consecutive Traffic Index. In 2020, we saw a vastly different picture. From lockdowns to closed borders, people movement changed and it changed very fast,” said Ralf-Peter Schafer, TomTom’s vice president of traffic and travel.