New York City – Using data obtained from Global Positioning Systems installed in over 13,000 New York City taxis, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been able to measure the City’s traffic volume with a great deal of accuracy. The statistics are part of the DOT’s Sustainable Streets Index, an annual report which describes how people make their way through the City.
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Based on the DOT report, the Wall Street Journal writes (http://on.wsj.com/Rc4RKM) that an estimated 778,000 vehicles pass through Manhattan’s central business district – otherwise known as all of Manhattan south of 60th Street – each day.
The DOT report also found:
• 65% of commuters either walk or take mass transit to work
• Holidays and weekends are the fastest days for drivers
• There tends to be less congestion on Mondays and Thursdays than the rest of the work week
• Traffic moves faster in the spring and fall than the summer and winter
• Traffic moves faster on the days right after major holidays
• Traffic slows towards the end of the year because of holidays and special events which clog the City streets
• Traffic slows whenever the United Nations is in session
DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan and other officials attribute improvements in the City’s traffic volumes to designated street lanes for bicycles and buses.
Whose brilliant idea was it to put the UN in Manhattan anyway? How about a nice cow patty field in S. Carolina?
Do 778,000 vehicles pass through Manhattan’s central business district effect the eruv status in Manhattan?
“There tends to be less congestion on Mondays and Thursdays than the rest of the work week”
Obviously due to Leining… but I’m still trying to work out why!