Results tagged “gridlock”

City authorities are basically advising New Yorkers to stay off the road in Manhattan this week with the UN General Assemblies bringing leaders from around the globe into town. With President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expected tomorrow, large portions of of 42nd Street, 57th Street and Second Avenue will shut down to create an emergency vehicle lane. In addition, 49th and 50th Streets between Park and Lexington Avenues are already closed through midnight Thursday. Officials also said to generally avoid the east side and use mass transit in order to avoid the gridlock that will inevitably come from all of the week's motorcades and demonstrations.

On the heels of Governor Paterson’s endorsement of Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan comes a new Quinnipiac poll showing that New York State voters oppose it 50 – 33 percent. Most of the opposition has to do with a pervasive doubt that the revenue from the plan would actually go to improve mass transit, as promised.

The Thanksgiving Day and Thanksgiving Day Eve have emerged as some of the busiest travel days of the year. While the media shows shots of crowded airports and train stations on the Wednesdays before Thanksgiving (like today), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics says that when personal vehicle travel is included into calculations, "Thanksgiving Day is actually a heavier long-distance travel day [to and from a destination more than 50 or more miles away] than...

City officials are warning drivers that they should expect to spend more time sitting in traffic than waiting in line while holiday shopping. Today is the first of nine designated holiday gridlock days, when the city tries to head off street-clogging traffic that can frustrate even a seasoned city driver. NY1 quotes some professional drivers and visitors on how bad traffic can be around Thanksgiving and the holidays in New York. “Oh man, traffic is...