It’s ridiculous.”Ĭhelsea James, Baruch Sophomore, has also noticed the increase in traffic patterns. Fifth Avenue can be jammed for hours…I’m serious. It takes me so much longer to get to school in the morning on the BXM18. is up to the challenge, and the City of New York is up to the challenge.”Īlthough New York City is “up to the challenge” of facilitating New York City traffic, some Baruch students have remained “disappointed” with the influx of delays.Īngela Stewart, a graduate student at Baruch, explained, “I feel that New York City has slowed down compared to other years. Since the election of Trump, the street-sides surrounding Trump Tower, between East 56 th Street and 57 th, have been crowded with protesters.Īt a news conference, Mayor de Blasio explained, “We have never had a situation where the president of the United States would be here on such a regular basis. Brooklyn College, and the introduction of pedestrian walkways and bike lanes to major city streets, the factors contributing to the increase in traffic are astounding.Īccording to Sam Schwartz, a former New York City traffic commissioner, traffic in the city has already “increased by 4 percent over last year,” reaching a decade high percentage.Ī lot of weight has been placed on Mayor de Blasio to facilitate the flow of traffic in the Big Apple.
Given the major construction of the Second Avenue subway line which will run from White Plains Road to Flatbush Ave. In accordance with a report published by The New York Post, 59.7 million people are anticipated to have entered New York City by the end of this year, despite efforts to introduce tourists to outer boroughs such as Queens or Brooklyn. However, the increase in “busy days” has come with the changing times and pace of New York City due to factors other than the season’s greetings.
In accordance with the New York City government website, the ten busiest days in the New York City holiday season all fall within late November and mid December, the hours surrounding Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. The hustle and bustle of holiday decorating in conjunction with the election of a candidate who hails from New York, has placed the metropolitan hub and economic center into a major traffic alert zone. There were seven gridlock alert days between September 23 and October 1.Gridlock in New York City has come to an ultimate high this holiday season. Schwartz believes New York’s DOT should add a few more – “such as around Labor Day or around the Memorial Day weekend – at least an alert for those people trying to get out of town,” Gridlock Sam said. cities have adopted “gridlock days” to describe their own dramatic traffic influxes. Now, between app-based car services and increased biking, the DOT estimates the average speed of cars is around 4 mph. Schwartz used data that determined 7 mph was the average speed of cars on gridlock alert days. Former DOT Commissioner “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz coined the term in the 1980s to describe the 10 most congested days in the city. General Assembly when heads of state and many other dignitaries were in town.Ī gridlock alert day is a day when an influx of additional vehicles adds to the already heavy traffic on Manhattan streets. Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said the city added six days related to the U.N. New York City is finally officially acknowledging what many locals already knew: The city has many more than just 10 so-called “gridlock alert days.” City officials increased the number of gridlock alert days to, beginning on September 24.
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