Adams has also said he would manage traffic more efficiently by partnering with technology companies to monitor traffic patterns in real time, and he has called for rethinking truck deliveries, including shifting more rush-hour deliveries to off hours.īut those efforts will do little to address traffic already flooding into the city. de Blasio’s successor, Eric Adams, an avid cyclist, has promised to build on those efforts. And pedestrian safety managers - a service provided by a local business district that was halted in March 2020 - were brought back to help people navigate a busy street near the tunnel.ĭuring the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose time in office ends on Friday, has encouraged people not to drive, and the city has added a significant number of bus and bike lanes.
Several stops along a bus route in Lower Manhattan have been suspended at times because buses cannot get around traffic packed outside the Holland Tunnel. The traffic-saturated streets have prompted New York City transportation officials to revive gridlock alert days, on which they warn people to avoid certain parts of the city and use public transit instead.
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Though traffic volumes nationally remain below prepandemic levels, especially in urban downtown areas, cars are increasingly clogging roads in many cities, including Chicago, Miami and Las Vegas.īut no place is as bad as New York City, which topped a 2021 scorecard of the country’s most congested urban areas, with drivers losing an average of 102 hours annually to congestion, nearly three times the national average, according to INRIX. The return of traffic jams is not just a New York phenomenon.
“Never, never, never in my life - not even during Christmastime before - have I ever seen traffic this bad,” said Dharminder Singh, 45, a Long Island construction worker whose round-trip commute time to job sites in Manhattan and the Bronx has doubled to three hours a day.
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