A new report on highway travel says New York is on the fast track toward passing Los Angeles as the most congested city in the United States.
If 2010 trends hold up this year, New York could pass L.A. within a year.
The city is home to the most jammed corridor in the U.S. An 11.3-mile stretch that includes the Cross Bronx Expressway and the George Washington Bridge can take more than an hour to navigate during rush hour.
The study found the Cross Bronx at the Bronx River Parkway is the worst bottleneck in the country.
Speeds average 11 miles an hour in heavy traffic.
The 2010 National Traffic Scorecard was compiled INIRIX, the company that delivers traffic data to NY1.
(Source: NY1)
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The only Chiddush in this article is that it’s not already there!
The most important part of the solution to the Cross Bronx congestion was first proposed more than a century ago: A freight rail tunnel underneath the Hudson. Such a tunnel combined with improvements to existing rail lines in NYC and suburbs would take millions of trucks a year off the Cross Bronx (and also the BQE and LIE). But Bloomberg used his influence to put it on the shelf over five years ago. Christie is not the only leader with no transportation vision.
Bloomberg is doing everything possible to make things worse for automobiles.
He taking out traffic lanes, in order to install bicycle lanes, which are of dubious value, and which crearte driving hazards to confused drivers.
He is installing concrete medians in the wrong places, narrowing the roadways and screwing up traffic flow.
There may be some good ideas there, but the devil is in the details.
deepthinker! were both with the same opinion! taking away soo many miles of roadway from vehicles and giving them to bikes is a big cause for this problem! #1 I think this is the reason its gettiing much worse now.
Here in the Bronx, the bike lanes are mostly ignored. But they have nothing to do with the congestion on the Cross Bronx and the BQE. Nevertheless I would much rather see Bloomberg do something about the truck traffic. And that must involve rail freight.