As an inhabitant from Bucharest, I can definitely tell you that you’re not spending 6 minutes in traffic going to and from work. Take ~1 hour in advance give/take. Keep in mind that you also need to find a parking spot at your destination because while the number of cars increased, the number of parking spots couldn’t keep up.
Many people resort to park in the most illegal places possible, such as sidewalks or pedestrian crossings, and that’s a practice that has been tolerated for a lot of time by the authorities and has only recently started being tackled through fines and bollards.
Bucharest is in a weird position of being a “car-centric-pedestrian-friendly-ish” city - because while you can easily use public transit and walk to where you need, people are using cars to go everywhere and whoever can own and drive a car, does it, sometimes even for short distances. It’s crazy!
Bucharest is actually a pretty cool city, enjoyed my time traveling there a lot! Obviously being a tourist or a resident in a city are two vastly different things lol
5 work days should be about 40 hours.
For 200 work days per year, that’s 1 hour per 5 days.
That means they lose 6 minutes on their way to work and 6 minutes on their way back.
Losing 6 minutes during traffic hours against optimum conditions, that should be better than EU average. That makes me want to move to Bucharest.
As an inhabitant from Bucharest, I can definitely tell you that you’re not spending 6 minutes in traffic going to and from work. Take ~1 hour in advance give/take. Keep in mind that you also need to find a parking spot at your destination because while the number of cars increased, the number of parking spots couldn’t keep up.
Many people resort to park in the most illegal places possible, such as sidewalks or pedestrian crossings, and that’s a practice that has been tolerated for a lot of time by the authorities and has only recently started being tackled through fines and bollards.
Bucharest is in a weird position of being a “car-centric-pedestrian-friendly-ish” city - because while you can easily use public transit and walk to where you need, people are using cars to go everywhere and whoever can own and drive a car, does it, sometimes even for short distances. It’s crazy!
Bucharest is actually a pretty cool city, enjoyed my time traveling there a lot! Obviously being a tourist or a resident in a city are two vastly different things lol