Are you gearing up to get out of town this holiday weekend? Better hit the road now if you want to get there in time, according to a new traffic report from the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management.
"The holiday season is one of the busiest long-distance travel periods of the year, and the weekend before Christmas is the busiest of the holiday season, bar none," said Professor Mitchell Moss. Moss and his colleagues have put together a list of the ten worst NYC-area "traffic hot spots" during the holiday season, and basically, it boils down to: avoid everything, which might be difficult given that the AAA is estimating this year's holidays will bring the highest traffic volume the country has seen in 10 years.
The Post has helpfully posted a full listing of streets to avoid, and, well, good luck out there:
1. FDR Drive — 34th Street to 116th Street Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 9-minute delay
2. Henry Hudson Parkway — 72nd Street to George Washington Bridge
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 9-minute delay3. Pulaski Skyway — I-95 to Tonnelle Ave.
Worst time: 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., 10-minute delay4. I-95 (across Bronx and Manhattan) — Exit 13 to Fort Lee, NJ
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 24-minute delay5. Major Deegan Expressway — I-278 to I-95
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 5-minute delay6. Major Deegan Expressway — Van Cortlandt Park to I-95
Worst time: 3 p.m to 7 p.m. , 7-minute delay7. Whitestone Expressway — Exit 14 to Whitestone Bridge
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 11-minute delay8. Hutchinson River Parkway — Cross-County Parkway to Mamaroneck Road
Worst time: 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., 13-minute delay9. I-84 (near Waterbury, Conn.) — I-691 to Austin Road
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 8-minute delay10. Conn. Turnpike in New Haven — Marsh Hill Rd. to Ella Grasso Blvd.
Worst time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., 8-minute delay