![]() ![]() The message to drivers? “Your trip through midtown will take three times as long.” session, and at the end-of-the-year holidays. “If you are in the traffic, you are the traffic.”īeginning this week, the city will spend $500,000 on a new campaign to warn of gridlock days on the radio and in internet ads to try to get more drivers off the road on the six weekdays from Sept. week is the most challenging traffic time in New York City, and I’m not even sure people know that,” said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner. By comparison, the mile-long drive took 14 minutes the day of the Rockefeller Center tree lighting. The only time it took longer - 20 minutes - was in a blizzard in March. ![]() ![]() session last year, up from an average of 10 minutes the rest of the year, according to city data. It took an average of 19 minutes to drive just 1 mile in midtown Manhattan on a Monday during the U.N. gridlock is now worse than holiday gridlock for the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center or the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square. He has been late getting to appointments in previous years because of the traffic jams. week, forget about it,” said Leo Lazarev, 68, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician who will have no choice but to drive his truck with equipment. The traffic jams and security-related street closures will turn Manhattan into a labyrinth, even for seasoned drivers. Thousands of world leaders and diplomats - including President Donald Trump - and their security details are expected to descend for a whirlwind of meetings, parties and shopping that is always an economic windfall for the city. But in another sign that the city is getting more crowded, the annual congestion warning will now expand to 16 days, up from 10 days last year, and will start earlier than ever before, on Sept. ![]()
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