New York City is the 2nd most congested place in America

A new detailed report from the National Traffic Scorecard puts New York City as the 2nd most congested place in all of the United States. The only major metropolitan city more congested than NYC is Los Angeles, CA.

According to the report, the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan area is most congested on the Cross Bronx Expressway (West-bound; but it’s actually just as congested the other way as well). In fact, the bottlenecking in the area is so high that the Cross Bronx Expressway actually holds the title of “most congested roadway” in both the regional and national top 5 worst roads.

If you travel on the Cross Bronx Expressway often, then according to these statistics, you’re actually spending about 94 hours in congested traffic while going at a rate of about 9 MPH. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

Anyway, if you want to beat traffic, the best time to travel via roadways in NYC is on Friday between 6-7AM. The worst time to travel? Friday between 5-6PM.