text:  This year's global traffic scorecard put out by the transportation analytics group INREX says the nation's worst cities for congestion are New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But drivers all over the country are experiencing longer and more crowded commutes. 42 hours a year, which is how much we spend on average on the road, they say, more than before the pandemic, when a lot of us had ditched the daily grind and stayed at home. Mass transit ridership, the study says, is down. Sherry Preston, ABC News.