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Bottleneck * USA - Official ranking puts KC traffic on list of nation's worst
“It’s a pain,” said Kansas City trucker Chris Lunceford. “There’s just too much traffic for the area”
Kansas City,KNS,USA -The Kansas City Star, by BRAD COOPER -14 June 2010: -- In a town with relatively few traffic problems, Kansas City has been tagged with a glaring one... The Federal Highway Administration has rolled out a list of the nastiest freight bottlenecks in the country, and the 13th worst is the southeast corner of the downtown freeway loop where Interstate 70, Interstate 670 and U.S. 71 converge... Driving in that area, Lunceford encounters a lethal mix of crisscrossing cars and trucks jockeying for position. It’s a dangerous dance he would prefer to sit out... Using 2009 data compiled by the independent research spinoff of the American Trucking Association, the list showed the 100 worst shipping bottlenecks nationwide. The sixth worst was in downtown St. Louis, where three interstates meet and cross the Mississippi River into Illinois... The new ranking is part of a national effort to identify key chokepoints on the country’s busiest highways. It’s intended to give the trucking industry ways to avoid costly slowdowns and to help planners better understand how the system might be improved to move freight... (Photo by CHRIS OBERHOLTZ/The Kansas City: The convergence of Interstate 70, Interstate 670 and U.S. 71 at the southeast corner of the downtown loop can be a traffic chokepoint that leads to costly delays for the trucking industry, according to data from 2009)Labels: truck bottlenecks
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