Heavy Duty Trucking, August 2018
AUGUST 2018 HDT 55 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM HIGHWAYS While the United States is only ranked as the fourth most traffic congested area in the world three of the top five most congested cities listed in the global top five are U S cities Los Angeles 1st New York 3rd San Francisco 4th and Miami 5th SOURCE INRIX RESEARCH 10 Most Congested Urban Areas in the U S 2017 RANK CITY PEAK HOURS SPENT IN CONGESTION TOTAL COST PER DRIVER TOTAL COST TO THE CITY BILLIONS 1 Los Angeles CA 102 2 2828 192 2 New York NY 91 2 2982 337 3 San Francisco CA 79 5 2250 106 4 Atlanta GA 70 1 2212 71 5 Miami FL 64 2 2072 63 6 Washington DC 63 3 2060 61 7 Boston MA 60 3 2086 57 8 Chicago IL 57 0 1994 55 9 Seattle WA 55 0 1853 5 10 Dallas TX 54 8 1674 49 IN 2017 ALMOST 89 OF THE NATIONS BRIDGES WERE STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT ONE IN THREE OF U S BRIDGES INTERSTATE HIGHWAY BRIDGES HAVE IDENTIFIED REPAIR NEEDS AT CURRENT PACE OF REPAIR REPLACEMENT IT WOULD TAKE 37 YEARS TO REMEDY ALL STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT BRIDGES SOURCE AMERICAN ROAD TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INRIX 1252 AVERAGE DIRECT CONGESTION COST PER DRIVER 304610174829 TOTAL COST FOR THE U S 0 2526 50BRIDGE AGE YEARS 51 7576 100 100020406080100 DEFICIENT BRIDGE STRUCTUALLY SOUND BRIDGE102 898 17 83 321 437 665 679 563 335 Percent of Bridges by Deficiency Age 10 Most Congested U S Roads in 2017 Rank City Large Urban Area Road From To Worst Peak Period Hours of Delay 1 New York NY I 95 Eastbound Exit 1C Alexander Hamilton Brdg W Exit 6A I 278 PM 118 2 Chicago IL I 90 I94 Southbound Exit 53C I55 Exit 34B Lake Ave E AM 98 3 Chicago IL I 290 Eastbound Exit 15A I 88 Exit 28B Paulina St AM 89 4 Los Angeles CA I 10 Eastbound Exit 3A S Figueroa St Exit 13 I 110 PM 74 5 Pittsburgh PA I 376 Eastbound Exit 65 Academy St Exit 65 Academy St AM 66 6 Chicago IL I 90 Southbound Exit 50A N Ogden Ave Exit 43C Montrose Ave AM 66 7 New York NY E 34th St FDR Dr 5th Ave AM 59 8 New York NY Belt Pkwy E Exit 3 I 278 Exit 17 Cross Bay Blvd PM 57 9 New York NY E 42nd St FDR Dr 7th Ave PM 56 10 Boston MA I 93 Southbound Exit 20B Albany St Exit 8 Furnace Brook Pkwy PM 55 SOURCE AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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