[T.B. Yoits]

The tunnel is the bottleneck. Widening the approach roads is of little use, you’ll still be waiting in traffic while the tunnel is full.

True. The tunnel is a bottleneck but the real bottlenecks are the traffic signals in Manhattan. Drivers come out of the tunnel right into city traffic.

[proxy_user]

Actually, if you bear hard right coming out of the tunnel there is usually little traffic getting onto the West Side Highway. I have done this on a Sunday afternoon.

However, I agree most people try to go the other way, and get stuck.