That one accident screwed the entire bus commute but combined with Amtrak losing power, it also affected rail too - it basically took out all regional travel into the NYC metropolitan area.
While that's nice to say, NYC has 8.6 million people, never mind the daily people trying to get into it from NJ and Connecticut, Westchester, Rockland County, etc. At some point, you simply have too many New Yorkers and not enough New York! I thank God every day that I work from home 100% of the time. I know there's been this huge push to get everyone to go back into the office, but why should people have to endure nightmare commutes like this? If you're laying bricks, I get it, there's no such thing as working from home. But so many of us work cubicle jobs that can be done from anywhere.
The same companies that Force everyone to drive and create pollution have all kinds of BS on their website about how they're green and care about the environment.
I just got back to sf from shanghai and i gotta tell you the metro in china is truly an architectural wonder, everyone should go experience it at least once in life. you never ever had to wait longer than a few minutes for a train and you can literally go anywhere in the country.
I’m going to China for the third time next month and I can’t wait to to take more high speed trains. I’ve been to the USA a few times, but I’m honestly quite fed up with the car dependency.. Can’t walk anywhere. Don’t need a car in China and the public transport is dirt cheap off course.
@@davidrobertson4332 there are also American cities that have tried and succeeded to build mass transit systems. Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, and even NYC all have public transit systems that work, and many projects are underway to improve their infrastructure.
@@Bookworm214-y3d I want to visit China so bad it hurts. Unfortunately I don’t have the discretionary income to go anywhere at the moment, but it’s a work in progress 👊🏻
@georgediaz5522 It literally would not have reduced traffic in Jersey. Fort Lee would've seen an increase in traffic along with other towns in NJ, as noted in the MTA's own environmental assessment.
NJ roads require an SUV or else you get tossed around in your car by potholes. Congestion Pricing is another democrat scam because they don’t want MTA riders to start paying subway/bus fares and they don’t want MTA to stop embezzling hundreds of millions every year.
I’m talking about in general on New Jersey roads, Turnpike, Parkway, 280, Route 80 etc.. there is no longer off peak hours, rush-hour seems to be a constant 24/7.
Aging infrastructure (signaling issues), bad drivers (accidents on the rise), increased commuter population, and near perpetual "construction" (something always being shut down or running at partial capacity), all contributed to this clusterfk.
Florida is also in perpetual road construction now. The biggest difference is population. NYC/NJ has A LOT more. Close down down I4, I75, I275 or I95 in Florida (with a fraction of the population) & watch the fallout. 🤷
Nothing new or unusual about this. In 1971 I was stuck in a 3 hour backup on the loop going down to the Lincoln tunnel. After that I quit my job and began working in a Philadelphia suburb. My commute went from 15 miles to 75 miles, but commute time stayed the same. Driving south on the Turnpike, I would listen to NY traffic reports and laugh all the way.
I used to live in Jersey City in 2019. I only lasted 1 year. Got stuck in a traffic standstill through the Lincoln tunnel that took 2 hours to go 2 miles. After that, I swore off living in NJ forever. The $ savings were not worth the time and hassle and am living in NYC again. (My business requires driving into NYC.)
Working close to home is a benefit all by itself. Unfortunately, in NY Shity, that’s out of reach for most people. I work on 43st and there’s a guy that lives in the building across the street. He can wake up at 7:45 and still be early for 8:00! So jealous! 😂
@@firstnamelastname-ve9gj @firstnamelastname-ve9gj That may (or may not) be correct, but there are Philadelphia suburbs that are not in Pennsylvania. I can probably count the times I've been in Pennsylvania in the last few years on one hand with fingers left over.
Then people will be saving money, not working a 2nd job or want to work overtime, won’t need daycare, won’t be buying gas, or buying lunch and coffee… Our system, economy, is built around the rat race.
@@SarahDeshay Working from home will cut productivity even more. Buncha lazy folks in pjs taking 20 lunch breaks throughout the day. To hell with that.
I am so glad, my wife left a good job in the city JUST because of this daily stress that simply took the toll on her. I saw it more and more on her. It was horrible. The best thing she had done. 3 years now, working from home, full time and she is a different person.
A whole generation today just doesn't get it. My building was evacuated, NJ closed off, walked the streets of midtown all night in a daze because we were all in shock and the police told everyone no sitting on curbs. Finally Got to Weehawken via ferry around 8pm Sept. 12th. Oh, and no cellphone service. And I was one of the lucky ones who was blocks away from the towers.
Used to lived in NYC and couldn't pay me enough to live there. Too Expensive, too crowded, too stressful and loud, never ending construction...too much. Human beings are not meant to live like this.
Back in the day, before schools were forced into being social services agencies, everyone took biology. There were discussions on how contained rats behavior was negatively impacted by introducing more rats into that contained environment. “So what?” Why would (introducing 20 million people into a space that used to hold 10) be any different?
Most of the crowding is due to finance capitalism that believes unlimited growth in a finite world 🌎 is sustainable. As a result, a few regions of the country like NYC, the powers that be continue to add people and businesses, instead of spreading industries around for better balance. There are literally states with less people than the entire population of NYC. How ridiculous is that. 😳
What a nightmare commute of the decade. Basically everyone who lives in NJ and works in NYC couldn't get into the city via any mode of transportation aside from a helicopter. More reason to work remotely if possible.
@@Rocanala True. Employers found that working remotely decreases productivity. In many cases, employees working from home tend to focus more on their house chores, running errands or social media.
I thank God I work from home 100% of the time. If you program like I do or worth with a computer, there's really no reason to have to go into the office. You want to go in once every 2 months just to have a get together? Awesome, that's wonderful. Having to put up with nightmare commutes like this 5 days a week is simply insanity.
How about this, build more tunnels for trains to connect New Jersey and New York City better. So that fewer people drive. The dream is that you could travel from Long Island to New Jersey by train without transferring from LIRR to NJT.
Then the trains break down, lose power, etc., as described in this video. What we really need is an economic retooling that makes it more viable to live in smaller/midsized cities, so that we're not trying to cram huge populations into tiny, hyper-dense areas with miserable, dehumanizing living conditions.
5 years ago I was stuck behind a fatal motor cycle accident on the 210 freeway here in California. I was only 3/4 of a mile from the next exit and was stuck for 6 hours while they directed every single car off of the freeway one by one so they could investigate the crash. Literally shut down the freeway and were funneling thousands of cars off the freeway on a single exit on a major thoroughfare. It was an absolute nightmare. On 4th of July no less
@@piggy8761 It reminds me of the people throughout history who always resisted progress, holding back advancements that could have improved society. • Those who opposed Lincoln’s fight to unify the country. • The ones who fought against Roosevelt’s conservation efforts, which were designed to protect the land for future generations. • Factory owners who didn’t want mandatory education, fearing it would take away cheap labor, hindering innovation. • People who denied the environmental impact of cars, resisting changes like catalytic converters that improved air quality. • The folks who fought seatbelt laws, ignoring the safety benefits. • Those who wanted to stick with horses instead of expanding roads for cars. • And even those who didn’t see the importance of the internet when it was first born. Infrastructure is another area where progress gets stifled. Just like in the past, there’s always a group that resists change, and now we’re paying the price with crumbling roads, inefficient public transit, and hours-long commutes
Lol, yeah, don't. I got a car this summer and with school starting back up, I may go back to taking the train. It's cooler now so the underground shouldn't be hot like it was a few weeks ago.
Sometimes you have to. My catering company requires driving to deliver to food/bev to NYC. I used to live in NJ to save money on rent. The traffic was hell. I only lasted a year before moving back to NYC. I’d rather pay more in rent than spend hours in the Lincoln tunnel helix. And the Holland Tunnel was even worse! Backed up into Soho. OMG so stressful.
People don't want to acknowledge the fact that we've created a car centric culture. Those tunnels are at capacity and cannot be expanded further. Nor can any of our other crossings. We cannot add more lanes. This won't get any better. It' has been like this for decades. We should focus on drastically improving mass transit in the country.
Motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic.... Everywhere I go, it's the same BS. The police slow to react. Other people driving erratically. There is a myriad of issues here and for the most part can be remedied by the people. You can even see in this video cars cutting in front of trucks and larger vehicles without any warning, why would anyone do that?
In my city of Philadelphia it’s the speeders in the dodge challengers and chargers going 100mph in residential areas that’s the problem. Blowing thru lights.
It’s human nature. You allotted yourself barely enough time to be somewhere without allowing for any problems that may arise. Now your anxiety is building followed by anger. The two mixed together brings out the most professional “drivers”
exactly--- I support congestion pricing-- NJ is garage... they get what they pay for--- I can't wait til they are stranded in the winter.... like...... lord have mercy
Leaving my job in NY was one of the best decisions I made. It was always 2.5 hours each way. Plus the toll increases and gas was not worth it. That GWB traffic from the Bronx to Jersey was hell. That was the ONLY way to get back to Jersey from the Bronx and the stress made me leave my job. Now I work 15 minutes from my current job. But this is ridiculous.
NYC population and congestion is a perfect reason why work from home needs to be expanded in that area (less people on the roads causing daily congestion).
People dawdling in the left/passing lane, not maintaining speed going uphill (my favorite), rubber necking ("look, stopped car!"), playing on the phone while driving ...
The rubber necking is even worse now with cell phones. Because now, it’s not only “oh wow look at that accident!”. It’s also “quick, let me take a picture so I have something to put on facebook!”. The phones are the worst. I have to horn the idiots at damn near every green light just to make them put the dam phone down! The left turn signals are the worst (the ones that give you a whole 7 seconds to make it). If the first ass is on the phone, you’re lucky if you get 2 cars through.
Tolls and public transportation prices keep rising but no improvements. The roads are a mess, construction everywhere, I am exhausted before even getting to work 😮
A car accident can be dealt with by first responders and can be cleared within one-to-two hours of responders arriving... The only reason an accident MUST take longer, is usually when there is a fatality :(
Imagine if the money spent on the middle east wars, Ukraine and Israel for war and chaos was instead invested on American infrastructure paying for American jobs and creating generational and economy saving roads, bridges, subways, rail, etc.
The gateway project is adding a second tunnel to NY Penn from NJ, and will rehab the century old north river tunnels soon enough, and replacing the portal bridge in NJ
In 1967, when I was in the NY Army National Guard, in convoy from NY to Ft.Dix, N.J. one of our jeeps flipped over in the Lincoln Tunnel, injuring the occupants! Luckily, it was on a weekend & didn't hold up traffic too long, but I couldnt imagine what kind of a traffic jam it would have caused, on a weekday!
In the 1930s: "Lets build more infrastructure." In the 2020s: *nothing* How about building a pedestrian/bicycle bridge or tunnel between NJ and NYC? How about building another vehicular tunnel or bridge btw NJ and NYC? How about building another train between NJ and NYC? And how about connecting NJ 495 with NY 495 over Manhattan? Investing in public infrastructure is just history. Politicians of 21st century don't wanna do it.
@paxundpeace9970 That's not going to improve traffic. They're doing that because literally the old tunnel is crumbling on the verge of collapse. It's a race against time.
Oh boy, summer was great with the traffic, but suddenly once kids go back to school I’m seeing my entire road paths to my office hitting the red zone everyday. And traffic accident suddenly increase too!
This is why I'm a strong supporter for either 1 working from home or 2 clock in the minute You start commuting to work because you wouldn't be in this traffic if it hadn't been for your job, forcing you to report to work in office
Let's just go back to work from home for those who work in offices. It's ridiculous we still have so many people commuting, which is an entirely unpleasant experience, when their jobs could be done from home. And add more mass transit options.
This is bad. Come to LA without cars. Commuting using public transportation beyond 25 miles can result 4 hours. I am not talking about middle of nowhere. You see lits shopping centers, offices, apartments, hoyses, hospitals, etc but no reliable public transportation. Oh, why not taking trains. Lucky one walk 45 minutes to stations, take trains 2 hour buses. Unlucky 2 hour bus, train, 2 hour bus. Hmm, faster than taking 4 hour buses. This happens every day.
PROS AND CONS OF RETURN TO THE OFFICE MANDATES PROS: -corporate synergy -mangers do not feel useless (but they are, they just don't feel it) -you can watch your employee's every move -water cooler talk CONS: -reduced productivity -employee depression -increased CO2 emissions -loss of money for everyone -public restrooms -loss of valuable time and energy, sucked up by the corporation -higher risk of accident/injury on the way to work -higher attrition -children and pets are unattended, to benefit the corporation
I live in Newark and work in Elizabeth. It takes me close to a hour to get to and from work because of this traffic now-a-days. It used to be a 20 minute drive a couple of years ago.
I live in NJ, I’m 20 minutes away from my job but it actually takes me double sometimes even triple the time to get to work thanks to all the congestion and out of staters trying to get to the shore or Atlantic City. It’s a nightmare
If there was BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, there would be less congestion. Better public transportation leads to less cars, which leads to less congestion.
Yesterday, I made a day trip in PA and I got stuck in 6 hours of total traffic between the way there and the way back. This is some of the worst traffic that I have ever seen. The city needs to fix their transportation problems.
People are not mindful. They know that if there’s an accident underneath that tunnel, it’s going to block up traffic drastically be mindful when you are riding or driving underneath mindful of deliberate.
They need to put more bridges and tunnels between NJ and NYC. Rush hour traffic is an all day long thing nowadays. Too many cars and commuters going back and forth.
That would require both NY and NJ to invest in such projects, and even then it would likely require federal money. Safe to say it's not gonna happen for decades.
Two car accident and entire highway gets jam packed. This is beyond ridiculous! I just came from GW bridge where a single vehicle was stalled and close to thousands of cars weee impacted
With modern cars doing damn near all the driving and some alarm blaring every 5 seconds telling us we’re doing something wrong, how would anyone know how to drive?
@@Vahlee-A exactly the amount of ppl in theirs cars with 1 person inside is insane , every single day in the verrazano bridge thers traffic to brooklyn .
Most places are accessible by public transportation but how long will that take? For example, LI to NJ is 3+ hours by train. To add fuel to the fire, not so nice bus cancelled the bus that runs close to my house. I can drive to the LIRR station, but I would need to be there by 4am to get a spot!
I remember when the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, we had to take alternate route and traffic was a nightmare for months. It would frequently take me 2 to 3 hours to get to work, used to only take 45 minutes. Good thing for liquor store open by my house at 8am so i can get a bottle for the ride.
Both States have to do better than this. No accident should have this type of impact on tens of thousands of people. Period.
Agree 100%
That one accident screwed the entire bus commute but combined with Amtrak losing power, it also affected rail too - it basically took out all regional travel into the NYC metropolitan area.
While that's nice to say, NYC has 8.6 million people, never mind the daily people trying to get into it from NJ and Connecticut, Westchester, Rockland County, etc. At some point, you simply have too many New Yorkers and not enough New York! I thank God every day that I work from home 100% of the time. I know there's been this huge push to get everyone to go back into the office, but why should people have to endure nightmare commutes like this? If you're laying bricks, I get it, there's no such thing as working from home. But so many of us work cubicle jobs that can be done from anywhere.
Thank goodness the rail tunnel connection under the hudson has finally begun construction. Can't get that done soon enough!
@@oloplyflapdar7384 Yeah, years too late but better late than never.
Imagine starting to work with less than a 1/8 tank of gas and with a 4-hour traffic jam ahead of you!
People probably just turned off their cars.
Well, I wouldn’t have to imagine for long
Good luck with an electric car
@grazz7865 Wouldn't be an issue since you aren't moving
At least pissing out of your door will improve the smell.
Wonder how many of those people could've worked from home if their employers just allowed them to do so.
As a rule, blue-collar workers can't work from home. Remote work is a perk of white-collar jobs.
probably 90%
The same companies that Force everyone to drive and create pollution have all kinds of BS on their website about how they're green and care about the environment.
Working from home is a farce. Back to offices.
No those ppl could suffer like everyone else and get thier butt to the office.
Imagine if there was an actual emergency and they needed to evacuate the NYC area
Head north through the Bronx.
Imagine if the tri-state did indeed need to evaluate due to an array of emergency situations… Folk would probably be stuck.
@@robertlunderwoodshhhhhh .
@@robertlunderwoodthis guy’s never tried to cross the GW in his life
@@4thaClipz You must live in the Bronx...
Meanwhile China and Japan have high-speed trains that can get you anywhere in the country in 6 hours or less.
The car culture of America will not allow it. How many times have cities tried and failed to implement mass transit systems.
I just got back to sf from shanghai and i gotta tell you the metro in china is truly an architectural wonder, everyone should go experience it at least once in life. you never ever had to wait longer than a few minutes for a train and you can literally go anywhere in the country.
I’m going to China for the third time next month and I can’t wait to to take more high speed trains. I’ve been to the USA a few times, but I’m honestly quite fed up with the car dependency.. Can’t walk anywhere. Don’t need a car in China and the public transport is dirt cheap off course.
@@davidrobertson4332 there are also American cities that have tried and succeeded to build mass transit systems. Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, and even NYC all have public transit systems that work, and many projects are underway to improve their infrastructure.
@@Bookworm214-y3d I want to visit China so bad it hurts. Unfortunately I don’t have the discretionary income to go anywhere at the moment, but it’s a work in progress 👊🏻
Traffic in NJ is at an all time high. Rush-hour used to be a couple hours a day now it’s constant, all day is rush-hour.
Congestion Pricing would have reduced that. Controversial as it is
@georgediaz5522 It literally would not have reduced traffic in Jersey. Fort Lee would've seen an increase in traffic along with other towns in NJ, as noted in the MTA's own environmental assessment.
NJ roads require an SUV or else you get tossed around in your car by potholes. Congestion Pricing is another democrat scam because they don’t want MTA riders to start paying subway/bus fares and they don’t want MTA to stop embezzling hundreds of millions every year.
I’m talking about in general on New Jersey roads, Turnpike, Parkway, 280, Route 80 etc.. there is no longer off peak hours, rush-hour seems to be a constant 24/7.
I was just saying this. It's always super busy.
,,,,,,,AND THEN THE TRAIN BROKE DOWN. LOL SUMS UP NJ-NYC TRANSIT.
Unfortunately this what happens when funding gets cut.
@@mxdanger Israel needs that money more than you do.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 Us has nothing to do with that war, we should be spending that money so we can provide people much better public transit
@@louisjohnson3755 Oh yes you do, they're America's greatest ally.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420*liability
Aging infrastructure (signaling issues), bad drivers (accidents on the rise), increased commuter population, and near perpetual "construction" (something always being shut down or running at partial capacity), all contributed to this clusterfk.
Your 100% correct.
Accidents in the Pulaski every day!!
Florida is also in perpetual road construction now. The biggest difference is population. NYC/NJ has A LOT more. Close down down I4, I75, I275 or I95 in Florida (with a fraction of the population) & watch the fallout. 🤷
...and Governor Andrew Cuomo's constant diversion of transit funding for stupid projects (like the Fulton Street remodel). You get what you vote for.
It’s amazing how ONE F’N ASS can’t drive and thousands of people are held hostage!
Utter incompetence by everyone in Port Authority. 3am accident affecting everyone all day?
It's so difficult to accommodate overcrowding.
“One more lane will fix it.”
Bus lane with right of way yeah. It will fix the problem fast.
Nothing new or unusual about this. In 1971 I was stuck in a 3 hour backup on the loop going down to the Lincoln tunnel. After that I quit my job and began working in a Philadelphia suburb. My commute went from 15 miles to 75 miles, but commute time stayed the same. Driving south on the Turnpike, I would listen to NY traffic reports and laugh all the way.
I used to live in Jersey City in 2019. I only lasted 1 year. Got stuck in a traffic standstill through the Lincoln tunnel that took 2 hours to go 2 miles. After that, I swore off living in NJ forever. The $ savings were not worth the time and hassle and am living in NYC again. (My business requires driving into NYC.)
Working close to home is a benefit all by itself. Unfortunately, in NY Shity, that’s out of reach for most people. I work on 43st and there’s a guy that lives in the building across the street. He can wake up at 7:45 and still be early for 8:00! So jealous! 😂
Yeah, but PA sucks
@@firstnamelastname-ve9gj @firstnamelastname-ve9gj That may (or may not) be correct, but there are Philadelphia suburbs that are not in Pennsylvania. I can probably count the times I've been in Pennsylvania in the last few years on one hand with fingers left over.
@@jeffgolden253 I moved to PA from NJ and miss NJ/NYC a lot. PA people has a lot of issues. A weird breed
Imagine how much gas is being wasted because of traffic. Companies should be trying to find ways to enable remote work as much as possible.
Imagine how many man hours are being wasted, this will possibly cut today’s productivity of the city by 1/3 or more.
Then people will be saving money, not working a 2nd job or want to work overtime, won’t need daycare, won’t be buying gas, or buying lunch and coffee…
Our system, economy, is built around the rat race.
@@SarahDeshay Working from home will cut productivity even more. Buncha lazy folks in pjs taking 20 lunch breaks throughout the day. To hell with that.
@@markl4798And the boomer comment of the day goes to...
@@VormavNJD I'm 6"3 and 260lbs. Wanna say that to my face? hmm?
I am so glad, my wife left a good job in the city JUST because of this daily stress that simply took the toll on her. I saw it more and more on her. It was horrible. The best thing she had done. 3 years now, working from home, full time and she is a different person.
it is just way too stressful. good on her, her health and well being is a lot more important
10 minute walk to work is priceless.
5000 rent, is not
@@jimmyjay689 just property taxes and utilities for myself.
@@jimmyjay689 have a 10 minute walk in my village as well ^^
Never forget about 23 years ago 3000 people never made it home. I was stuck in this traffic this morning and i'm grateful im back.
Amen 🙏 23 years tomorrow indeed.
It went from 2,000 to 2,500 and now 3,000? in another 10 years it will be 4,000. What about McDonalds?
@@jerrynadler2883 don't let this distract you from the fact that thousands of people lost their lives that day.
Perspective.
A whole generation today just doesn't get it. My building was evacuated, NJ closed off, walked the streets of midtown all night in a daze because we were all in shock and the police told everyone no sitting on curbs. Finally Got to Weehawken via ferry around 8pm Sept. 12th. Oh, and no cellphone service. And I was one of the lucky ones who was blocks away from the towers.
As the soon as September started traffic has been HELL in NY/NJ
Sure, all the schools are open. Everyone is home from vacation. Back to business as usual
@@grazz7865 Summer break is over time to go back to work CHOP CHOP 👏👏
Used to lived in NYC and couldn't pay me enough to live there. Too Expensive, too crowded, too stressful and loud, never ending construction...too much. Human beings are not meant to live like this.
Back in the day, before schools were forced into being social services agencies, everyone took biology. There were discussions on how contained rats behavior was negatively impacted by introducing more rats into that contained environment.
“So what?”
Why would (introducing 20 million people into a space that used to hold 10) be any different?
This video is about Jersey traffic, not your personal struggle with city life.
Our family had to move because of the parking situation.
Most people who speak like this made their money & then once they got enough left. Most people there still trying to make their money.
Most of the crowding is due to finance capitalism that believes unlimited growth in a finite world 🌎 is sustainable.
As a result, a few regions of the country like NYC, the powers that be continue to add people and businesses, instead of spreading industries around for better balance.
There are literally states with less people than the entire population of NYC. How ridiculous is that. 😳
Half of New York moved to Jersey during the pandemic what do you expect traffic to look like at the tunnels lol
NJ is nasty
They need to go back
@@economiccrisis9267Yes they do
What a nightmare commute of the decade. Basically everyone who lives in NJ and works in NYC couldn't get into the city via any mode of transportation aside from a helicopter. More reason to work remotely if possible.
Need boat to move like Staten Island
That’s ideal but not all employers allow it
They should just drive..... I mean... why would you take public transportation its grosss.....
@@Rocanala True. Employers found that working remotely decreases productivity. In many cases, employees working from home tend to focus more on their house chores, running errands or social media.
I thank God I work from home 100% of the time. If you program like I do or worth with a computer, there's really no reason to have to go into the office. You want to go in once every 2 months just to have a get together? Awesome, that's wonderful. Having to put up with nightmare commutes like this 5 days a week is simply insanity.
Yup yup yup
And it’s the same people every single morning and afternoon
How about this, build more tunnels for trains to connect New Jersey and New York City better. So that fewer people drive. The dream is that you could travel from Long Island to New Jersey by train without transferring from LIRR to NJT.
Thanks to conservatives and NIMBYs blocking projects that were needed 40 years ago just broken ground 2 years ago
Each direction of a tunnel probably costing 3 billions to build due to alternating east west running streets.
Good point. The ride from LI to NJ via train is 3+ hours each way!
Then the trains break down, lose power, etc., as described in this video. What we really need is an economic retooling that makes it more viable to live in smaller/midsized cities, so that we're not trying to cram huge populations into tiny, hyper-dense areas with miserable, dehumanizing living conditions.
That'll only take 50 years, and where to do the tunnels come out? This isn't sim city.
Boss: You still coming to work right?
The way how some of the motorcyclists drive inside the tunnels is disaster waiting to happen
Well that's basically what happened here, just not enough fire to make it a Daylight situation.
lol always blame the biker while you clog up the freeways with your 2 ton death boxes. Keep coping.
@@zxwaveyea bruh your in the right lol just know it’s never “if” a motorcyclist gets in an accident just “when”
@@MuffingDaCabage same with cars
@@zxwave yea man and I know the car wreaks Iv walked away from would have left me as a puddle on a bike. Hey do you man worlds over populated as it is
5 years ago I was stuck behind a fatal motor cycle accident on the 210 freeway here in California. I was only 3/4 of a mile from the next exit and was stuck for 6 hours while they directed every single car off of the freeway one by one so they could investigate the crash. Literally shut down the freeway and were funneling thousands of cars off the freeway on a single exit on a major thoroughfare. It was an absolute nightmare. On 4th of July no less
Another reason why I moved out of NYC
Unfortunately this type of thing is happening in many cities.
@@jaylewis5035facts.
Traffic happened in New Jersey bruh
@@BenMonaresright? Lol you would've been in the clear if you lived in the city.
The problem was driving from NJ to NYC. Not the opposite.
This was an absolute, " Perfect Storm."
Higher taxes to have this kind of service?
Fire your politician.
Its the nimbys that dont want anything new built
Yup
@@piggy8761 what is nimby
@@asermilord1777 the folks who hold society back
@@piggy8761 It reminds me of the people throughout history who always resisted progress, holding back advancements that could have improved society.
• Those who opposed Lincoln’s fight to unify the country.
• The ones who fought against Roosevelt’s conservation efforts, which were designed to protect the land for future generations.
• Factory owners who didn’t want mandatory education, fearing it would take away cheap labor, hindering innovation.
• People who denied the environmental impact of cars, resisting changes like catalytic converters that improved air quality.
• The folks who fought seatbelt laws, ignoring the safety benefits.
• Those who wanted to stick with horses instead of expanding roads for cars.
• And even those who didn’t see the importance of the internet when it was first born.
Infrastructure is another area where progress gets stifled. Just like in the past, there’s always a group that resists change, and now we’re paying the price with crumbling roads, inefficient public transit, and hours-long commutes
Note to Self: Never drive in New York.....lol
Never go to NYC by car.
Lol, yeah, don't. I got a car this summer and with school starting back up, I may go back to taking the train. It's cooler now so the underground shouldn't be hot like it was a few weeks ago.
Sometimes you have to. My catering company requires driving to deliver to food/bev to NYC. I used to live in NJ to save money on rent. The traffic was hell. I only lasted a year before moving back to NYC. I’d rather pay more in rent than spend hours in the Lincoln tunnel helix. And the Holland Tunnel was even worse! Backed up into Soho. OMG so stressful.
i rather walk than to drive make vehicle free cities use scooters 🛴 or bikes or just flying vehicles
I don’t know why people do it, especially office workers. North Jersey you are never far from a train station and they all get you to NYC.
People don't want to acknowledge the fact that we've created a car centric culture. Those tunnels are at capacity and cannot be expanded further. Nor can any of our other crossings. We cannot add more lanes. This won't get any better. It' has been like this for decades. We should focus on drastically improving mass transit in the country.
I wonder how many people got fired today for being 2-4 hours late. I wonder how many people get fired every year.
Everybody can get fired except the government - the ones responsible for this daily mess.
If you get fired it’s because you’re a bad worker not because you’re late once in awhile
@@JUVI9596not in my previous job.
U little late 3 times, u gone brother.
@@prashnaveetprasad8339 then screw them. They must’ve sucked to work for anyway. Who was it
@@prashnaveetprasad8339what kind of shithole job is that...and who is Dumb enough to work at a dump like that
Motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic.... Everywhere I go, it's the same BS. The police slow to react. Other people driving erratically. There is a myriad of issues here and for the most part can be remedied by the people. You can even see in this video cars cutting in front of trucks and larger vehicles without any warning, why would anyone do that?
In my city of Philadelphia it’s the speeders in the dodge challengers and chargers going 100mph in residential areas that’s the problem. Blowing thru lights.
It’s human nature. You allotted yourself barely enough time to be somewhere without allowing for any problems that may arise. Now your anxiety is building followed by anger. The two mixed together brings out the most professional “drivers”
Motorcycles weaving through traffic would make overall traffic faster
NJ suing NYC over congestion pricing is now complaining about congestion! What else should we do?
exactly--- I support congestion pricing-- NJ is garage... they get what they pay for--- I can't wait til they are stranded in the winter.... like...... lord have mercy
Congestion pricing would have reduced a good amount of those cars that were trying to get in to begin with
More taxes, that’ll fix things!
@twiggs24 Congestion pricing is not a tax though. It's a toll you only have to pay on the congested roads
It’s an infrastructure issue.
Leaving my job in NY was one of the best decisions I made. It was always 2.5 hours each way. Plus the toll increases and gas was not worth it. That GWB traffic from the Bronx to Jersey was hell. That was the ONLY way to get back to Jersey from the Bronx and the stress made me leave my job. Now I work 15 minutes from my current job. But this is ridiculous.
Instead of giving tax payers money to other countries, USA definitely needs to upgrade aging infrastructures. Pity
Sounds like a Trump campaign 😂
@@grazz7865Oh yeah? Maybe he’s got a point, start investing back into America so that stuff like this doesn’t keep happening.
I would’ve went back home
Yep
NYC population and congestion is a perfect reason why work from home needs to be expanded in that area (less people on the roads causing daily congestion).
People dawdling in the left/passing lane, not maintaining speed going uphill (my favorite), rubber necking ("look, stopped car!"), playing on the phone while driving ...
The rubber necking is even worse now with cell phones. Because now, it’s not only “oh wow look at that accident!”. It’s also “quick, let me take a picture so I have something to put on facebook!”. The phones are the worst. I have to horn the idiots at damn near every green light just to make them put the dam phone down! The left turn signals are the worst (the ones that give you a whole 7 seconds to make it). If the first ass is on the phone, you’re lucky if you get 2 cars through.
Imagine having the ability to do your job from home but being forced to deal with this...
Tolls and public transportation prices keep rising but no improvements. The roads are a mess, construction everywhere, I am exhausted before even getting to work 😮
I hope they have a faster solution to clear the tunnel since this can very well happen again.
They won’t
I know. Why not remove the motorcycle and sweep the debris, and open it up again? Especially at 3am it couldn’t have been that busy.
A car accident can be dealt with by first responders and can be cleared within one-to-two hours of responders arriving...
The only reason an accident MUST take longer, is usually when there is a fatality :(
Never understood why we don't have more tunnels or bridges between New Jersey and New York
Imagine if the money spent on the middle east wars, Ukraine and Israel for war and chaos was instead invested on American infrastructure paying for American jobs and creating generational and economy saving roads, bridges, subways, rail, etc.
sounds great until you realize war /military is the most profitable business
Facts…
@@adammurphy7562 And also until you realize that govt do not have your best interest in mind
The gateway project is adding a second tunnel to NY Penn from NJ, and will rehab the century old north river tunnels soon enough, and replacing the portal bridge in NJ
Keep imagining because it won’t happen
STAY HOME WORK REMOTELY
SAVE YOURSELF A LOT OF HELL
That option will be gone within three years. back to the office, all of you, go!
@@michaelk151 shut up, you don't know nothing!
THE ECONOMY CANNOT AFFORD FOR YOU PEOPLE TO ALL STAY HOME ALL THE TIME, ITS AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT!
@@coreturkoane5570 I know you don't know to speak proper English.
@@mattsmith4589???
I left NY 20 years ago and NEVER looked back :)
This just shows working local and improving public transportation is more important then having more personal vehicles on the road.
In 1967, when I was in the NY Army National Guard, in convoy from NY to Ft.Dix, N.J.
one of our jeeps flipped over in the Lincoln Tunnel, injuring the occupants! Luckily, it
was on a weekend & didn't hold up traffic too long, but I couldnt imagine what kind
of a traffic jam it would have caused, on a weekday!
I really can’t understand how this happens. You’re driving in a straight line? How hard is that??!!!
In the 1930s: "Lets build more infrastructure."
In the 2020s: *nothing*
How about building a pedestrian/bicycle bridge or tunnel between NJ and NYC? How about building another vehicular tunnel or bridge btw NJ and NYC? How about building another train between NJ and NYC? And how about connecting NJ 495 with NY 495 over Manhattan? Investing in public infrastructure is just history. Politicians of 21st century don't wanna do it.
They gone build a new rail tunnel between Jersey and Manhattan but this will not be ready till 2030 or so.
@paxundpeace9970 That's not going to improve traffic. They're doing that because literally the old tunnel is crumbling on the verge of collapse. It's a race against time.
Ask Israel if we can have some of our money back to un-jam the busiest traffic corridor in the USA (Metro NYC tunnels + Route 95 + Amtrak)
They could use the Israel and Ukraine money to finish the gateway tunnel. Hell maybe even open another tube for cars since nj cares so much about that
Awe, the freedom of the open road and a fine American automobile. These people must be so happy to not be trapped in a walkable 15-minute city
Crazy NJ still has outdated toll booths, needs to be all electronic tolling.
Agreed!
Oh boy, summer was great with the traffic, but suddenly once kids go back to school I’m seeing my entire road paths to my office hitting the red zone everyday. And traffic accident suddenly increase too!
The lottery is quitting your job in the city. It ain't worth it.
I swear to god I’m about ready to . I spend so much working there and then it’s not even convenient lol I’m transferring back to NJ .
This is why I'm a strong supporter for either 1 working from home or 2 clock in the minute You start commuting to work because you wouldn't be in this traffic if it hadn't been for your job, forcing you to report to work in office
Gotta justify that commercial rent instead of working from home
I commuted on that day to NJ. Traffic was out on the NJ Turnpike, terrible commute and was not going to city.
Let's just go back to work from home for those who work in offices. It's ridiculous we still have so many people commuting, which is an entirely unpleasant experience, when their jobs could be done from home. And add more mass transit options.
I commuted by Amtrak and NJT for years. Anxiety everyday. You don't know how bad it is until you leave, you just accept it as normal!
And tolls here are so expensive
Man, those of us who work from home (at times without leaving our beds at that) salute all of you road warriors.
And they want everyone back in the office …. Smh 🤦♂️ 🤦 🤦♀️
Yet prices rise for tolls and tunnels
This is bad. Come to LA without cars. Commuting using public transportation beyond 25 miles can result 4 hours. I am not talking about middle of nowhere. You see lits shopping centers, offices, apartments, hoyses, hospitals, etc but no reliable public transportation.
Oh, why not taking trains.
Lucky one walk 45 minutes to stations, take trains 2 hour buses.
Unlucky 2 hour bus, train, 2 hour bus. Hmm, faster than taking 4 hour buses.
This happens every day.
PROS AND CONS OF RETURN TO THE OFFICE MANDATES
PROS:
-corporate synergy
-mangers do not feel useless (but they are, they just don't feel it)
-you can watch your employee's every move
-water cooler talk
CONS:
-reduced productivity
-employee depression
-increased CO2 emissions
-loss of money for everyone
-public restrooms
-loss of valuable time and energy, sucked up by the corporation
-higher risk of accident/injury on the way to work
-higher attrition
-children and pets are unattended, to benefit the corporation
That is due to US not investing in infrastructure for its people. No guesses for where the tax money goes to
Israel, Ukraine, Venezuela etc
@@SmokyOlelmao Venezuela?
Live in New Jersey. Work in New Jersey.
there are no jobs in NJ. I think that's the problem
I live in Newark and work in Elizabeth. It takes me close to a hour to get to and from work because of this traffic now-a-days. It used to be a 20 minute drive a couple of years ago.
@@anonymous_lagotto dude I work as a mechanic here
they should investigate these tunnels problems too often the other day was the queens tunnel sad for working people
Not enough capacity.
And this is why we need modern high speed rail like they have in Europe and Asia.
Don't miss New Jersey one bit.
Too crowded, too stressful and way too much traffic.
Traffic was crazy everywhere, even in Brooklyn
That infrastructure deal is working wonders...
THIS DONT SMELL RIGHT
I live in NJ, I’m 20 minutes away from my job but it actually takes me double sometimes even triple the time to get to work thanks to all the congestion and out of staters trying to get to the shore or Atlantic City. It’s a nightmare
Lol who the f wants to deal with this anyways. Even if it wasn't for the accident this is an everyday thing.
What a nightmare. I am so grateful I work from home. I hope the person on the motorcycle is okay.
Bring back remote work
This is EXACTLY why I dont miss working in NY
Ridiculous! How many people’s jobs will be affected negatively due to lateness!
I didn't get to work until noon that day. Absolute nightmare.
You know, if there was congestion pricing there would be less congestion
+ and added $$$$/year to people that have no choice but to drive adding to an already expensive budget with everything else inflated.
If there was BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, there would be less congestion. Better public transportation leads to less cars, which leads to less congestion.
Yesterday, I made a day trip in PA and I got stuck in 6 hours of total traffic between the way there and the way back. This is some of the worst traffic that I have ever seen. The city needs to fix their transportation problems.
I would be miserable
Have fun people what a world we live in.
NYC highways are garbage especially the FDR and the Cross Bronx.
Just too many people. Very overpopulated-yet they keep building and building. Just pile people on top of each other
People are not mindful. They know that if there’s an accident underneath that tunnel, it’s going to block up traffic drastically be mindful when you are riding or driving underneath mindful of deliberate.
All because a selfish biker crashed his chopper.
They need to put more bridges and tunnels between NJ and NYC. Rush hour traffic is an all day long thing nowadays. Too many cars and commuters going back and forth.
That would require both NY and NJ to invest in such projects, and even then it would likely require federal money. Safe to say it's not gonna happen for decades.
they have to ride electric bikes to get to work on time need a bike to get you out of traffic, let me know.
That’s why I invested in an electric scooter. 43st/11av to penn station in 3 minutes!
Two car accident and entire highway gets jam packed. This is beyond ridiculous! I just came from GW bridge where a single vehicle was stalled and close to thousands of cars weee impacted
Has nothing t do with infrastructure. NYC ppl can’t drive. That opening seen of traffic looked like Istanbul.
NJ people can't drive tf 💀 it's dangerous as hell to drive in that dump state
With modern cars doing damn near all the driving and some alarm blaring every 5 seconds telling us we’re doing something wrong, how would anyone know how to drive?
That and there are too many FXVKING CARS. We need to stop prioritizing cars and start prioritizing bikes and public transit.
@@Vahlee-A exactly the amount of ppl in theirs cars with 1 person inside is insane , every single day in the verrazano bridge thers traffic to brooklyn .
Even normally the lincoln tunnel is always backed up and busy. That tunnel is so narrow that yea all it takes is one car to block it all
At least there's path trains
Overcrowded path trains.
lol they’re never crowded
Path has shouldn't suck as much as it does, it is way simpler than the NYC subway yet has terrible frequencies outside of rush hours
Outrageous that there’s no train alternative besides the PATH
Leave the roads for people that cannot work remotely!!!! Remote work fixed this!
Bro really thinks that workers don’t even deserve an office
I'll be sure to cook your food remotely. LOLZ.
That’s life in the big city
SOME MORON TEXTING ON THEIR HARLEY
No, it's life in the suburbs. People in the city take transit, walk, or bike.
That had to be absolutely horrible.
This is why one should work at a place they can get to by public transportation
Most places are accessible by public transportation but how long will that take? For example, LI to NJ is 3+ hours by train. To add fuel to the fire, not so nice bus cancelled the bus that runs close to my house. I can drive to the LIRR station, but I would need to be there by 4am to get a spot!
You're hilarious. In the US public transportation is almost non existent
Only 3 hours? Considering it takes an hour and a half to get through there on a normal day, it isn't the end of the world.
room temperature iq take
Why such a rush to go to the same place every day
I remember when the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, we had to take alternate route and traffic was a nightmare for months. It would frequently take me 2 to 3 hours to get to work, used to only take 45 minutes. Good thing for liquor store open by my house at 8am so i can get a bottle for the ride.