Traffic

WCBS 880 Special Series: Your Future Commute – Thursday Is The New Friday For Traffic

What is the worst day of the week for traffic in the Tri-State area? The answer might surprise you.

2012/09/13

Lincoln Tunnel Helix (credit: Google Maps/Google Earth)

WCBS 880 Special Series: Your Future Commute – No Pain, No Gain

Making your commute smoother down the road requires pain now.

2012/09/11

Series Of Public Hearings For New Tappan Zee Bridge Project

Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered dozens of public hearings to make sure all questions about a new Tappan Zee bridge are answered.

2012/08/09

Queens Residents Say Out-Of-Control Drivers, Dangerous Curves Make A Potentially Lethal Combination

Residents who live on 185th Street near 143rd Avenue in Springfield Gardens, Queens describe their neighborhood as a racetrack.

2012/07/25

EXCLUSIVE: A Traffic Nightmare Like No Other On Long Island’s East End

Motorists are beginning to wonder how safe they will be if a hurricane strikes Long Island’s East End. They have this fear because for nearly seven staggering hours during Tuesday’s storm, the only roads out were clogged and closed.

2012/07/25

Major Delays Don’t Materialize On GWB As Work On Alexander Hamilton Bridge Under Way

Officials expect backups in the eastbound direction across the George Washington Bridge and into Interstates 80, 95 and the Palisades Parkway, which could cause traffic to back up for miles into New Jersey.

2012/07/16

Water Main Break Closes All Lanes Of Route 3 East Near MetLife Stadium

Traffic is still a mess as crews continue to repair the pipe, which broke around 2:15 a.m. east of Route 17.

2012/06/11

Traffic on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. (credit: Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

Study: New York City Ranks Fourth For Worst Traffic; Congestion Down Across USA

Do you think you have it bad stuck in traffic in New York City? Well, it could be worse. You could be in Honolulu.

2012/05/22

FILE - Police watch traffic entering the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Over Height Tractor-Trailer Gets Stuck, Causes Major Delays At Lincoln Tunnel

Around 9:30 a.m., an over height tractor-trailer tried to drive into the New Jersey-bound north tube of the tunnel when it hit the top of the entrance and became stuck.

2012/05/07

SoHo Residents Demand Solution To Gridlock Problem

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer called on the Department of Transportation and State Legislators on Monday to address traffic and congestion in SoHo, where residents say Broome street is turning into a parking lot.

2012/01/23

Hutchinson River Parkway near Scarsdale, NY - Dec 2, 2011 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)

Tri-State Area Has Some Of America’s Most Unreliable Roads

The Cross Bronx Expressway and the Van Wyck Expressway are reliably awful, but some of the New York City area roadways are, according to the Texas Transportation Institute, reliably unreliable when it comes to traffic jams.

2011/12/02