“The traffic is insane this week,” cab driver Sean Karim, 35, told The Post in between picking up fares in Midtown Manhattan.
The Big Apple is back — to driving you crazy.
The traffic was crawling so badly Thursday morning that Karim, who has driven yellow taxis for nearly a decade, reluctantly turned down a fare near the Port Authority bus terminal because it would have been four times faster for his passengers to walk. “I was worried I was going to get stuck in the tunnel with no gas. I had to conserve gas. Traffic wasn’t moving.
Bus ridership, though, hasn’t experienced a similar surge. The number of riders has remained around 60% of the pre-pandemic figures for weeks, the data shows. He said that while traffic was always bad after Labor Day, it was particular worse in Midtown now because of heavy construction and reduced lanes.Oscar Echeuerria, a delivery truck driver, said he’d been changing up his routes this week in a bid to avoid the gridlock.“For example on 8th Avenue from 47th, there used to be five lanes open but now there’s just two lanes open. They’ve made one lane for walking, one lane for parking and one lane for the bus, so two lanes are open.
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