Besides Toronto, Manila makes it to this list too. Should we be suprised? It's more fun in the Philippines!

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World's 10 worst cities for driving

They say the adventure isn't in the destination, but in the journey.

That's fine in theory, but after hours inhabiting a hot car in bumper-to-bumper traffic, there's a point when you want to say, “Screw the journey, someone airlift me to my hotel!”

After surveying IBM's 2011 Commuter Pain survey, World Bank statistics and other Internet sources, we put together this non-scientific list of the worst cities for anyone wanting to maintain a perception that there's still any romance left in driving.

3. Manila, Philippines


Well, they said they wanted the traffic to flow ...


In 2001, Manila borrowed US$60 million from the World Bank for transit-related activities. Among other things, the funds were meant to “promote the use of non-motorized transport.”

A campaign asking locals to “Please stop driving,” however, wasn't necessarily the best approach to traffic management.

According to one report, “Residents perceive traffic congestion as their number one problem, followed by air pollution, garbage collection, flood control and the need for security.”

So, Filipinos care more about getting to work on time than they do about respiratory ailments, mounting trash heaps, drowning or being assaulted? Capitalism wins again!

Redeeming quality: You're in a country in which smooth-flowing traffic is apparenly of utmost importance to residents. So, you gotta figure somebody, somewhere is working on the problem. Right?