Nation's Worst Traffic Jams
Dave Schul
NBC news did a report tonight (Wednesday) that listed the 10 worst
highways in the country for traffic jams, according to AAA (although
the story is not listed on AAA's site):
Boston: I-93 from both directions into downtown
New York City: I-287
Chicago: I-88/I-290 intersection
New Orleans: I-10/I-610 intersection
Houston: I-610/US-59 intersection
Dallas: I-35/I-30/US-75 "Mixmaster"
Washington DC: I-95 Wilson bridge approaches
Los Angeles: I-10/US-101/CA-60 interchanges
Minneapolis: I-35W into downtown
Milwaukee: I-94 west of downtown
Richie -- 23rd St. in Lawrence must have been #11
Dave
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D Banks
And I'm sure we all noticed that they called CA SR-60 "US-60"
MarkA
In article <558qr6$i...@raven.cc.ukans.edu>,
map...@ukans.edu (Dave Schul) wrote:
>NBC news did a report tonight (Wednesday) that listed the 10 worst
>highways in the country for traffic jams, according to AAA (although
>the story is not listed on AAA's site):
<snip>
>Houston: I-610/US-59 intersection
Assuming this is the western and not the northern interchange, it
amazes me that this interchange is still on the list after the massive
US59 reconstruction. Both east and west bound US 59 has SEVEN lanes in
each direction approaching 610 (not including the two HOV lanes). I
guess the backup is the impossibility of going west on 59 and trying
to merge into northbound 610. That's what needs to be rebuilt.
>Minneapolis: I-35W into downtown
This has to be the worst interchange in the entire Midwest. Built in
the early 60's, it has numerous hairpin ramps and non-existent merge
lanes. If you attempt to go from northbound 35W onto 94 westbound, you
might as well bring a sandwich because the wait will be that long
MarkA
Allen Wone
In <smiths-3110...@smiths.admin.upenn.edu> smi...@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street) writes:
>> New York City: I-287
>I wasn't paying close attention to Robert Hager's narration on this
>morning's rebroadcast, but I heard the name of the expressway in New York
>on the list: the Gowanus, an aging elevated structure running from near
>Fort Hamilton to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
>That would be I-*278*.
It would have to be I-278 considering that I-287 doesnt even come in to
New York City.....
FOr those who dont know.. I-287 runs in NJ, merges with I-87 in Suffern, NY
then goes across the Tappan Zee Bridge with I-87 as the free part of the
NY Thruway and comes out the other side of the bridge as the Cross
Westchester Expwy.
Allen Wone
>map...@ukans.edu (Dave Schul) wrote:
>>
>> NBC news did a report tonight (Wednesday) that listed the 10 worst
>> highways in the country for traffic jams, according to AAA (although
>> the story is not listed on AAA's site):
>>
>> Boston: I-93 from both directions into downtown
>> New York City: I-287
>You must mean I-278 (Brooklyn-Queens Expwy). Although the New York
>City ringroad, I-287 does not come anywhere near New York City.
Actually the part they are talking about is called the Gowanus Expwy..
I-278 has many different names as it goes through differnt parts of NYC.
In Staten Island, its called the Staten Is. Expwy, then becomes the
Gowanus in Brooklyn after crossing the Verrazano Br and at the Brooklyn
Battry tunnel interchange becomes the Brooklyn-Queens Expwy. AFter crossing
the Triborough Bridge it becomes the Bruckner Expwy in the Bronx.
Mark S. Roberts
Dave Schul (map...@ukans.edu) had written:
| NBC news did a report tonight (Wednesday) that listed the 10 worst
| highways in the country for traffic jams, according to AAA (although
| the story is not listed on AAA's site):
| Chicago: I-88/I-290 intersection
Oh, *lovely*. Guess where my new employer is located?
| Houston: I-610/US-59 intersection
This surprises me. I would have thought I-45 and I-610; perhaps the
Hardy Toll Road has indeed helped.
| Dallas: I-35/I-30/US-75 "Mixmaster"
| Washington DC: I-95 Wilson bridge approaches
| Los Angeles: I-10/US-101/CA-60 interchanges
| Minneapolis: I-35W into downtown
| Milwaukee: I-94 west of downtown
| Richie -- 23rd St. in Lawrence must have been #11
And I-35 in Johnson County (KC suburbs), Kansas #13.
(#12 is *anywhere* in Lake View or Lincoln Park in Chicago on a
Saturday)
Mark (soon-to-be Edgewater resident)
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> New York City: I-287
I wasn't paying close attention to Robert Hager's narration on this
morning's rebroadcast, but I heard the name of the expressway in New York
on the list: the Gowanus, an aging elevated structure running from near
Fort Hamilton to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
That would be I-*278*.
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D Banks
> >highways in the country for traffic jams, according to AAA (although
> >the story is not listed on AAA's site):
>
>
> >Houston: I-610/US-59 intersection
>
> Assuming this is the western and not the northern interchange, it
> amazes me that this interchange is still on the list after the massive
> US59 reconstruction. Both east and west bound US 59 has SEVEN lanes in
> each direction approaching 610 (not including the two HOV lanes). I
> guess the backup is the impossibility of going west on 59 and trying
> to merge into northbound 610. That's what needs to be rebuilt.
>
>
I checked my tape, it was the western one. 500,000 vehicles per day,
stop and go for 6 hours or more per day.
Mike Ballard
: > Los Angeles: I-10/US-101/CA-60 interchanges
: And I'm sure we all noticed that they called CA SR-60 "US-60"
Aren't we forgetting I-5 in that interchange. Its kinda important too.
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Dave Schul
D Banks <david...@gdt.com> wrote:
>And I'm sure we all noticed that they called CA SR-60 "US-60"
Well, it used to be US 60, so they aren't totally out of line, but
since it was decertified back in the 60s, it's probably not the result
of using an outdated map. Even AAA, the source of the story, usually
picks up on new or renumbered highways within a few years.
Richie Kennedy
Dave Schul wrote:
> Richie -- 23rd St. in Lawrence must have been #11
Flattered, As Always. Now for some news related to the attempt to
reduce the traffic level
The Lecompton Interchange (exit 197) on the Kansas Turnpike (I-70)
officially opened Thursday. The Lecompton Interchange leads to Kansas Highway
10, also known as the South Lawrence Trafficway. Presently, The Trafficway
runs from the Farmers Turnpike (a county highway that runs North of the
Turnpike), past US-40 to Clinton Parkway (and the Dam of Clinton Lake). It is
currently unsigned, but some K-10 signs have popped up, some are covered, but
others are not.
The Trafficway, in a matter of Weeks, will proceed to US-59 and dead end.
From there there is some contraversy because of a wetlands area. There are two
routes on both sides of the Wetklands.
31ST STREET: KDOT and the Corps of Engineers (who must issue permits) approve
of this route. However, this route is right behind Haskell Indian Naitons
University. The General concensus at Haskell is that traffic on 31st Street
Now is an encroachment on their religion
38TH STREET: The FHwA preffers this route, but FEMA and the EPA may require
this route be put on piers.
A Wetlands Group has threatand to sue no matter which route is picked.
They Want to see the Highway miss the Wetlands completely by going South of the
Wakarusa River. Not only is this more expensive, but will not reduce traffic on
23rd Street enough to make an impact on 23rd Street, on which K-10 currently runs.
(Translation: Not enough Local-Local Traffic)
A Question about sineage. Along the Farmers Turnpike,
there are signs that read:
JCT
70 (shield)
10 (sunflower)
KTA (also a sunflower)
Anybody guess on wheather the Turnpike sign should go above the 10
Richie Kennedy (Who Modified James Lin's Kansas Sign, printed it, and
placed it on #10's Locker :)
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