1/9/2024 0 Comments Gridlock alert days 2021NYC topped a 2021 scorecard of the country’s most congested urban areas, with drivers losing an average of 102 hours annually to traffic, nearly three times the national average. Average speeds have also fallen on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, the Long Island Expressway and Grand Central Parkway in Queens and the Cross Bronx Expressway, where the average speed barely exceeds 15 mph. The city’s most congested artery has become the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, where since 2019 the average travel speed has dropped during the morning rush by 19% to 21.5 miles per hour. The army of office workers still clocking in remotely means fewer cars flow into the city from the suburbs, lessening Manhattan congestion, but traffic has slowed to a crawl on highways in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, according to analytics company, INRIX. Traffic fatalities rose to their highest level in nearly a decade – and scientists are also seeing higher levels of climate-changing emissions. Skyrocketing traffic is not just maddening it has made the city’s streets deadlier for pedestrians and cyclists. Some neighborhoods are being choked by more vehicles than they have ever seen before, with traffic snarls fueled by a plunge in transit use and car-pooling, soaring car ownership and a surge in delivery trucks servicing e-commerce customers. Traffic has come roaring back in New York City since the height of the Covid pandemic, but even as cars have returned, congestion that has paralyzed Manhattan for years is spreading to the city’s other boroughs.
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