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CONGESTIONS & SOLUTIONS * USA - America's Most Congested Highways
These Roads and Bottleneck Intersections Drive Commuters Crazy Each Day
New York,NY,USA -ABC News, by SCOTT MAYEROWITZ -Feb. 25, 2010: -- Drivers trying to get through the New York City area might want to rethink their routes or take public transportation: five of the country's worst 10 highway interchanges are in the Big Apple... And most of those are along the 8.3-mile-long Cross Bronx Expressway, a narrow highway blasted through dense bedrock that takes Interstate 95 across the northern part of the city... Chicago-area residents may also want to leave their cars at home. The Dan Ryan Expressway, which cuts through the city's South Side, has five of the top 25 worst interchanges in the country, according to a new study by INRIX, a firm that provides real-time traffic and navigation services to private companies, government agencies and the public... The Cross Bronx, Dan Ryan and other roads around the country might have been built as superhighways, but today, they often look like parking lots... Traffic moves at an average of only 11.4 miles an hour, for instance, at the nation's worst interchange, where the Cross Bronx meets the Bronx River Parkway at exit 4B. Traffic is backed up at that spot a shocking 94 hours a week...For those who don't drive in New York or Chicago, don't fret -- there are plenty of traffic nightmares near you... The sixth-worst spot in the country is at the southern end of Interstate 91 in New Haven, Conn., says INRIX. The seventh-worst is an intersection on the Hollywood Freeway, Route 101, in Los Angeles near Los Angeles Street... (Images Forbes: Intersections. Job cuts are felt on highways across the U.S.)
* Canada - Truckers peer into their crystal balls
Winnipeg,MB,CAN -Today's Trucking -25 Feb 2010: -- Imagine a truck smart enough to tell you that up the road, about 500 feet, another vehicle is approaching the intersection, on your right, and not slowing down fast enough to come to a complete stop in time... So, you take your foot off the accelerator, cruise up to the intersection a little slower and a few seconds later than you would have, and sure enough that vehicle you were warned about obliviously blows through their stop sign... How far off in the future is technology like that, 10, 20, 30 years?.. Implementation of these Intelligent Transportation Systems in the trucking industry may be years away, but that kind of technology has been developed... That was just one of the insights discussed during the Future of Trucking Symposium in Winnipeg last week. The University of Manitoba Transport Institute hosted the event and brought together a number of speakers who provided a glimpse of what the future has in store for trucking... (Video from YouTube, by roadtransport -UK- 4 March 2010: "Volvo Trucks Cornering Lights on the FH.mpg" Neat little video animation of Volvo Trucks'-Sweden- 'cornering lights' on their FH truck range. This was shown at the original Volvo Fh16.700 product launch in January 2009)
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