Choo choo!
Posted on 06/15/2010 10:04:15 AM PDT by Willie Green
The interchange of interstates 64, 65 and 71 in downtown Louisville is one of the worst in the country – that’s according to a new study out today from the American Transportation Research Institute and the Federal Highway Administration. It ranks Spaghetti Junction as the 11th-worst bottleneck in the nation.
The report measured the average speeds at which a vehicle can navigate the interchange during peak and non-peak hours.
Chuck Moore is the president of Eagle Steel, which operates in Indiana and Kentucky. He says the bottleneck creates a logistics problem for his company and others.
“If you didn’t have you company in Louisville or the greater Louisville area, you probably wouldn’t bring it to town with the bottleneck that we have,” says Moore. “We depend on the highways to get product from Indiana to Kentucky. We sometimes just stand still on the bridge that is there, and the roads around because of that bottleneck.”
Moore is also the co-chair of the Greater Louisville Manufacturing and Logistics Network – a group that supports the Ohio River Bridges Project.
Other interchanges that ranked higher than Louisville on the list include three in Chicago, and others in New Jersey, Lox Angeles, St. Louis and Atlanta.
We all knew it’d go there anyway, right?
Choo choo!
As far as I can see, in the US planners take the approach that punishing drivers will increase use of mass transit.
In Europe, planners start from the premise that they must make mass transit easy and desirable to attract users.
Atlanta’s spaghetti junction ranks #5.
I guess a lot of cities have such a pasta junction....
I hear Houston has a fucilli junction.
Yep, I have literally spent on trips to San Antonio an hour-and-a-half, on I-35 in Austin.
Now I just take the more scenic route to San Antonio through the Hill Country, and I get there in the same amount of time.
Yep. It comes in at number 5 on the list. I swear the engineering design of the Federal Hwy system in and around Atlanta has to be some of the worst ever. Whoever had the bright idea to merge I-75 and I-85 in the middle of the city with a giant curve in it should be strung up. And I-75 into Cobb County just north of the river goes from 6 lanes to 3. Stoopid!
I am amazed the ‘Mixing Bowl” is no longer listed in the top 100!
The “white knuckle” on I 75/85 curve in downtown Atlanta - one of the reasons we don’t drive in downtown Atlanta any more than we have to...
That and the merging / exiting is insane on that interstate.
SNORT! LOL!
That's why I moved back into Manhattan! I would jump off a bridge if I had to deal with #'s 1-18!
I did a search for VA and found nothing. Now I see that they were categorized as “Washington D.C.”
What a compliment that is!
In Atlanta, Spaghetti Junction is what I-75, I-85, US-19?
That one didn’t even make the list.
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