AtomWorker t1_j63t3cp wrote on January 27, 2023 at 2:52 PM

I'm not surprised at all. Conditions already sucked a decades ago, but it's gradually gotten worse. At least back then there were seasonal lulls; nowadays it's bad all the time.

State government is at least partially to blame for this mess. Over the years they've wasted money on lightly populated corners of the state instead of focusing resources where the congestion is heaviest. What projects they did undertakehave always been too small in scope and in some cases ultimately made things worse; exit 27 in Bridgeport comes to mind.

MetroNorth isn't helping matters either. It's better than it used to be, but it's still not ideal. Too slow and there are a lot of annoyances.

Whaddaulookinat t1_j63y144 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 3:26 PM

> exit 27 in Bridgeport comes to mind.

To be completely fair, the idea was that Super 7 would help connect to i84 and ultimately i90 in Western Mass which would have relieved some of the truck freight traffic. Also the thought that truck based freight in general would get to the usage it has is a huge point for bottlenecking.