Traffic Roars Back, Reaching Pre-Pandemic Levels (New York, York: neighborhood, theater, schools)

[Aeran]

I can attest to that. The traffic is bad out here in Queens. Noisy. Busy. Annoying. As a pedestrian, you've got to move fast to avoid being run down. Jeesh.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...sts_po-organic

Traffic jams are a familiar sight again in the city.

“This traffic is just ridiculous," said one driver waiting to turn onto traffic-choked Morris Avenue in the Bronx. "We live in this neighborhood, it doesn't make sense for it to be this way.”

Schools are not fully reopened, many offices are closed, theaters are still dark. Six months after the pandemic erupted, life in New York is nowhere near normal—except for the traffic.

What You Need To Know:

Traffic engineer Sam Schwartz says 85 to 95 percent of car traffic has returned, and truck traffic is completely back to pre-COVID-19 levels

MTA bridges and tunnels regularly exceed 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels, last Friday, just shy of two percent from the daily average last year

Last week, an average of 243,000 vehicles drove into Manhattan each work day

East River bridges saw just a six percent decline compared to the week before coronavirus restrictions began in March

[Tencent]

Nobody is on the subway so yeah it's bad. I can't Uber anywhere recreationally. The prices are too high.

[Llol45519]

Priced out of uber lmfao that's a new one I haven't heard before.

[Dave 92 LSC]

Used car prices are 20-25% higher than normal. I cant even get hobby cars I was after.

[BugsyPal]

Subways are pretty crowded IMHO. Certainly during daytime hours, but as things get later suppose traffic drops off.

Trains are certainly more packed than they were April through much of summer. Also figure now that people have to pay for riding buses they have often switched back to subway.

[Mightyqueen801]

Drove back from the Island of Long yesterday. Crawled on the Cross Bronx for about half an hour to get to the GWB. Sure felt like the old days to me.

[GGG2020]

Yeah it's definitely back to the usual. Maybe lots of people are still avoiding the subway. Nice to hear there are many people driving into Manhattan now - not so much the part about them driving, but hopefully that means the office districts that got the worst economic hit can start coming back to life.

Crazy, I remember taking air quality samples in April for work, and I'd never seen anything like it. There was no gasoline residue in the air, at all. There's always a tiny little bit hanging around, but not that day. But what can you do, you can't have up-in-the-mountains clean air in NYC unless something is wrong with the city!

[SeventhFloor]

Subways have been more crowded over the past 2 weeks, and traffic has also increased. Based on how people on the subway are dressed, I don't think they're going to work, unless their jobs have no dress code.