Mexico City - IBM ranked as the world's worst place to drive. Average speed during peak hour traffic times: from the looks of it.. probably 0.
A look at some of the things that make urban transit speeds laudable (or laughable) when compared to speeds achieved by other (in)animate beings on planet earth:
Sloth speed: 0.12km/h
Goldfish speed: 1.38km/h
Average human walking speed: 4.5km/h
Michael Phelps’ speed during 100m butterfly: 7.1km/h
Average vehicle speed in Jakarta: 10km/h
Average Toronto streetcar speed: 12-13km/h
Average urban bicycling speeds: 14-16 km/h
San Francisco Cable Car average speed: 15km/h
New Delhi’s average traffic speed: 15km/h
Medellin’s Metrocable Line K average speed: 17km/h
Portland Aerial Tram average speed: 20km/h
Estimated average speed of Sheppard LRT Line: 22km/h
Chicago subway average speed: 24km/h
Wuppertal Schwebebahn average speed: 26km/h
Average subway speeds in Toronto: 30km/h
Usain Bolt’s average speed in 100m race: 37km/h
Lance Armstrong’s average speed during 2005 Tour de France: 42km/h
Lance Armstrong’s record average speed: 53km/h
Amtrak’s average speed: 112km/h
Cheetah speed: 120km/h
Beijing-Tianjin high speed rail average speed: 234km/h
Santa’s speed while delivering presents: 1,080,000,000 km/h