I have to drive through New York City several times a year for my job. I normally bypass completely by going to Scranton, PA then across to Connecticut.
I’ll be doing it again on Monday.
I’ve driven through NYC rush hour traffic a number of times...LA rush hour traffic once. LA was at least as bad...and maybe a bit worse.
so say I worked at 59th street and wanted to save the $15 each work day, is there enough parking for myself and my coworkers? What is the cost? Will my employer pay the $15 per day?
so now I work at 25th Street, is there enough parking for myself and coworkers plus enough public transportation for the 35 blocks I need to travel? O’ again employer pay $15 per day?
Of course I know the answer, so I choose to work from home, so no parking revenue for the garages in the area, no lunches purchased in the area, no coffee from StarBucks……. How long do small businesses survive?
>> Run out of EV juice while stuck in traffic? Could always carry a spare container. <<
Idling doesn’t consume energy in an electric vehicle. Not a bit. If you didn’t need lights, AC or a radio, you could idle for literally years in an electric car.
I moved off Long Island in 1998....for my last job down there it routinely took 40-minutes to go 9 miles to work.
In my college years decades ago I found I could walk the distance between Penn Station and Grand Central in about the same time as it took a taxi to drive the distance.
I think the cost to transit a tunnel into NYC is similar ($13?).
Embrace the Suck New Yorkers. Hahahahahahah
Land near Cross Bronx Expressway exits may become more expensive.
Have they fixed the roadway yet? I remember it as being a rough ride.
Washington, DC is #5. Not sure what the appeal of that metro area is, other than Federal jobs.
Considering the cluster that Atlanta is, it doesn’t seem to make the top 10. I HATE driving through Atlanta.
Every major city needs a true bypass where NO local traffic can pass. Better yet, quit importing people into these cities. Population density is way too high there anyway.
No, it won't you liar.
It's simply going to line the pockets of greedy, corrupt politicians.
Do the math. Anyone with a 30 minute commute is going to come close to this regardless of traffic.
Hmmm, any wonder why people want to work from home?
Seems like ever since covid and people started flocking to Florida the traffic has been horrible. Usually Florida only deals with major traffic during the winter with all the snow birds, but usually once they left in late winter early spring it was a huge difference (and relief), but now there never seems to be any difference. Feels like Los Angeles on the 405 or 101
NYC has spent millions in the last decade changing how vehicle traffic moves in Manhattan, and it has only worsened the traffic situation, with one caveat - they have added dozens of traffic police, directing traffic at major intersections, and those traffic police have been instructed to keep traffic moving and at times do so, usefully, against what the traffic lights say.
I think NYC has tried to deliberately make the vehicle traffic situation worse, as if to convince people not to drive cars in Manhattan, period.
I’m astonished that Boston (#4) is worse than DC (#5). Probably DC has more advanced work-from-home options.
...and Atlanta didn’t make runner-up? (Fake News!)
The plutocrats can’t decide whether they want to order the peons to commute to the office to keep downtown commercial real estate alive or ban cars to save the planet so they can cash in on the green scam.
Either way they could not care less what the sheeple think.
i absolutely refuse to drive in rush hour and my boss(es) know it!! I leave at 5:00 AM get to job and sit there drinking my coffee. start a little after 6 if I can and am out the door by 2PM, Im too friggin old to deal with it anymore. and as long as im turnin the numbers, my bosses dont care(3 differnt tile companies I work for). no one pays me that extra 2 - 2 1/2 hours a day to sit in traffic. absolutely will not do it!!