A new study has made official what New York City motorists have suspected for years — the Cross Bronx Expressway is the worst roadway for congestion in the nation.
Los Angeles took the top spot for the most congested city, with drivers spending 104 hours in traffic last year during peak times.
Moscow came second (91 hours), followed by New York City (89), San Francisco (83), Bogota, Colombia (80), Sao Paulo, Brazil (77), London (73), Atlanta (71), Paris (65) and Miami (65).
The “Global Traffic Scoreboard” study was published Monday by Inrix, which dubs itself the world leader in transportation analytics. It examined 1,064 cities across 38 countries in one of the largest traffic studies ever conducted.
Inrix found that 11 of the top 25 cities worldwide with the worst traffic congestion were in the US.
And New York is home to four of the top 10 most bottle-necked corridors in the nation.
The 4.7-mile stretch on the Cross Bronx Expressway, from Exit 6A to Exit 2, is the worst of the bunch, with the average driver wasting 86 total hours a year in traffic.
Getting across the George Washington Bridge also made drivers grit their teeth.
The span between Interstate 95 in New Jersey from Exit 70A over the GWB to the Throgs Neck Expressway came in as the third most-congested roadway, consuming 76 hours a year in commuting time.
Meanwhile, 5th Avenue southbound from 120th Street to 40th Street came in at No. 7 with drivers wasting 61 hours a year.
In the eighth spot is the 3.45-mile run to the Lincoln Tunnel from NJ-495 eastbound, where it meets the New Jersey Turnpike.
An average of 60 total hours of delays was clocked there.
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