Confirmed by Study: NYC Roads Are Really Congested

Inrix, a company which provides real-time traffic information, released its latest National Traffic Scorecard and NYC is the second most congested city in the country, after Los Angeles. However, we do take top honors for having the most congested roadway—a westbound stretch of the Cross Bronx Expressway/I-95 leading up to and including the Bronx River Parkway exit 4B interchange. The NYC area actually has six of the worst bottlenecks—the others are Cross Bronx Expy WB @ I-895/Sheridan Expy, Cross Bronx Expy WB @ White Plains Rd, Harlem River Dr SB @ 3rd Ave, Van Wyck Expy NB @ Liberty Ave, and Harlem River Dr SB @ 2nd Ave/125th St. Check out the other horrible bottlenecks in NYC here and NY1 interviewed drivers on the Cross Bronx—one said, "It's difficult every single day. It needs at least another level."

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By Jen Chung in News on February 25, 2009 5:40 PM

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pazzia

or tolls on the bridges. eh? eh?

also, i liked the multi-passenger rule when there was the transit strike. i wish that had been kept in effect.

Felix Hoenikker

$2/gallon tax would pay for all this and get a few cars off the road to boot.

felixthecat2

This is why we need to ban New York horse drawn carriage because it is inhumane to have them in such traffic and it only causes congested to have 1/2 ton horse with a carriage attached on 11th ave.

felixthecat2

I meant it causes congestion on 11th avenue, near the depots, the have 1/2 horses with a carriage attached on 11th avenue and not to mention the fumes the horses breath in behind the idling trucks and buses. what a cruel city

MrManhattan

It seems the roads are only congested because there's too many cars on them.

pete

We need automated highways. Retareded drivers brake the moment they see too many exits in a short distance or they freak out when see columns to their left, and think the lane narrows, when it doesn't.

I'm shocked that list didn't mention the LIE/GCP interchange, and from Brunker northbound onto I-95 northbound upto exit for Hutchinson NB near co-op city. Perma jams in both places all day long. Retarded drivers just hit the brakes when the scenery changes too fast.

Where the GCP crosses under the 7 train/roosevelt ave, drivers always hit the brakes, and are scared like chickens of the columns and the GCP splitting into 2 roads temporarily.

It was done 15 fucking years old and still we dont have automated highways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV0H7u6tmIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtj9J1A-PMk&feature=related

What could be if anyone gives a damn http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/Videos/movie24.html IE Only.

peanuthead

NO! Drivers need another level - another level of thinking where they seriously reconsider their commuting habits and start riding the TRAIN!

Sadly, when it comes to roads, the "build it, and they will come" dictum usually holds true. What really needs to be done is get folks out of their cars and onto the trains.

of course, with mass transit largely getting shafted and shafting the riders, that is wishful thinking.