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Atlanta is Number One!
allen griggs
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Worst freight bottleneck in the country, Spaghetti Junction. I drive the big truck truck through there 2 or 3 times a week.
America's worst truck bottleneck is in Atlanta, study says
Fiza Pirani The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
11:25 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 Traffic
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Spaghetti Junction ranked worst truck bottleneck in country
The interchange at I-75 and I-285 north made the list at No. 9 and I-20 at I-285 west came in at No. 15.
Nothing brings Atlantans together quite like complaining about traffic - especially with all the trucks on the roads.
A recent study found that the congestion isn't all in our heads.
The metro area's intersection of I-85 and I-285 (known as Spaghetti Junction) was recently ranked the worst truck bottleneck in the country by the American Transportation Research Institute, a nonprofit group associated with the American Trucking Associations federation.
? America's deadliest interstate is in Georgia, study says
ATRI analysts examined 250 "freight-significant" highway areas using truck position and speed data, which was gathered from the wireless onboard communications systems often used by the trucking industry.
Analysts then compiled a "total freight congestion value" for each area based on average truck speed, hourly congestion and other relevant metrics.
They found that Atlanta's Spaghetti Junction had an average speed of 38 miles per hour, but around 5-6 p.m., speeds averaged only 15-20 miles per hour.
Jason Getz / AJC
? More about the ATRI study and its methodology
Atlanta's I-75 and I-285 intersection also made the cut for ATRI's 100 worst bottlenecks at No. 9, up three spots from 2016.
And the I-20 and I-285 intersection ranked No. 14, up 12 spots from 2016.
Here are the five worst freight bottlenecks in America:
Atlanta, Ga.: I-285 at I-85 (North) GA
Fort Lee, N.J.: I-95 at SR 4
Chicago, Ill.: I-290 at I-90/I-94
Louisville, Ky.: I-65 at I-64/I-71
Cincinnati, Ohio: I-71 at I-75
America's worst truck bottleneck is in Atlanta, study says
Fiza Pirani The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
11:25 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 Traffic
Facebook Twitter Share 2
TRAFFIC
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Spaghetti Junction ranked worst truck bottleneck in country
The interchange at I-75 and I-285 north made the list at No. 9 and I-20 at I-285 west came in at No. 15.
Nothing brings Atlantans together quite like complaining about traffic - especially with all the trucks on the roads.
A recent study found that the congestion isn't all in our heads.
The metro area's intersection of I-85 and I-285 (known as Spaghetti Junction) was recently ranked the worst truck bottleneck in the country by the American Transportation Research Institute, a nonprofit group associated with the American Trucking Associations federation.
? America's deadliest interstate is in Georgia, study says
ATRI analysts examined 250 "freight-significant" highway areas using truck position and speed data, which was gathered from the wireless onboard communications systems often used by the trucking industry.
Analysts then compiled a "total freight congestion value" for each area based on average truck speed, hourly congestion and other relevant metrics.
They found that Atlanta's Spaghetti Junction had an average speed of 38 miles per hour, but around 5-6 p.m., speeds averaged only 15-20 miles per hour.
Jason Getz / AJC
? More about the ATRI study and its methodology
Atlanta's I-75 and I-285 intersection also made the cut for ATRI's 100 worst bottlenecks at No. 9, up three spots from 2016.
And the I-20 and I-285 intersection ranked No. 14, up 12 spots from 2016.
Here are the five worst freight bottlenecks in America:
Atlanta, Ga.: I-285 at I-85 (North) GA
Fort Lee, N.J.: I-95 at SR 4
Chicago, Ill.: I-290 at I-90/I-94
Louisville, Ky.: I-65 at I-64/I-71
Cincinnati, Ohio: I-71 at I-75
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"Chicago, Ill.: I-290 at I-90/I-94"
Often referred to as the 'Spaghetti Bowl', it is the meeting place of all three major expressways entering/leaving Chicago. It is also the access point for the other 4 major roadways in and about Chicago.
quote:Spaghetti Bowl
The Circle Interchange, or Spaghetti Bowl, as it was dubbed by radio traffic reporters, was built in stages from 1955 to 1962 to connect three major expressways west of the Loop-today the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Dan Ryan. The interchange, a series of expanding concentric circular patterns of ramps, quickly became one of the nation's most heavily used traffic nexuses. The complex also lent its name to the University of Illinois campus built nearby, which for a time was known as the Chicago Circle campus.
quote:IDOT is planning to build new car lanes and three new flyovers at the Circle Interchange, the downtown spaghetti bowl confluence of the Dan Ryan, Kennedy, and Eisenhower Expressways (I-90/94, I-290). IDOT justifies this $410 million project by saying it will improve traffic congestion, reduce crashes at this location, speed up travel time, and make it easier for truckers to drive through the interchange.
It can get very 'sporty' when you enter this area. Those that know where they're going try to get there quickly and efficiently while those who are clueless, muck about causing no end to traffic problems and accidents.
Best.
I look at them and politely tell them you don't have a clue.
I tell them when you start talking about how many hours it takes to get from one part of the city to another, then you are talking traffic.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
What a traffic nightmare that will be during baseball games.
A friend lives in Summerville and drives to North Charleston, possibly six miles and she said it took her an hour and a half the other day. No way Jose.
I would sell Apples on the side of the road before I sat in that kind of traffic
The company I worked for before I retired did some work for Dekalb County Schools in Atlanta and I used to have to visit several of the schools each day which required me to be in that traffic mess all the time for the 3 years I was working there. I was never so happy when I got transferred out of there to Birmingham.
A couple of years later I had a choice of going back to Atlanta or working on a new federal prison project in Yazoo City, MS. I volunteered for Yazoo City before my boss got the words out of his mouth. I would volunteer for a job in the Antarctic before taking a job in Atlanta. I hate that town!!
I drove through Atlanta once but never again.
The Louisville area has two new bridges over the Ohio River now and both are toll bridges, I65 and I265. It will be interesting to see how that impacts traffic in the Louisville area. The intersections of I65 with I71 and I64 are too close together. The new bridges will not help that I believe.
Oh yeah fatso chrustie the clown knew EXACTLY what was going down.
I can see the 75 285 junction from my office. With all the construction and now the Braves, it will move up from #9 next year. I dread driving down there.
I was driving through there at 5:10 on Thursday.
God it sucked!!