Chicago leads the nation with the worst bottleneck in a study released Monday by the American Highway Users Alliance. The worst drive in the nation, according to the study, is a 12-mile crawl on "the Kennedy Expressway (I-90) between the Circle Interchange (I-290) and Edens junction (I-94)."
The next six spots in the top 10 go to Los Angeles roads.
“As for the bottlenecks themselves, the study’s top 50 list includes trouble spots in the following Metropolitan Areas: 12 in Los Angeles, 9 in and around New York City, 3 in Chicago, 3 near Washington DC, 3 in Houston, 3 in Boston, 3 in Dallas, 3 in Miami, 2 in Atlanta, 2 in Philadelphia, and 2 in San Francisco/Oakland.”
The study authors said they used the same data the Federal Highway Administration uses to identify routes where travel options need to improve.
After Chicago and LA, the next city on the list is New York City, with the 8th and 9th worst bottlenecks. Austin is No. 10 on the list.
Read the full report, including the full list of Top 50 bottlenecks, here.
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