![]() In the past, when gridlock days started in November on the Friday before Thanksgiving and ran to Christmas, the city publicized them with news releases, social media and articles that often appeared on the gridlock day itself. City transportation officials said that after surveying drivers online, they learned that some drivers did not have enough time to change their plans. So this year, the paid ads will begin a week in advance of the gridlock days. If these gridlock warnings are not scary enough, they will be accompanied by new incentives to try other ways of getting around: a half-priced, three-day pass for Citi Bike discounts on shared car pool rides with Via and $5 flat-rate parking at Citi Field before noon in lots that are adjacent to the No. The number of vehicles driving into Manhattan’s central business district on a typical fall weekday has actually dropped to about 718,000 in 2017, from about 815,000 in 2004, according to city traffic estimates. But traffic has slowed to a crawl in recent years with vehicles in Midtown Manhattan averaging 4.7 miles per hour. There are many reasons: a fleet of Ubers and other for-hire cars, many of them circulating empty through the streets in search of riders a spike in delivery trucks as e-commerce has boomed and nonstop construction that has blocked or narrowed car lanes. ![]() A campaign to pass a comprehensive congestion pricing plan to charge drivers in the busiest areas of Manhattan failed in Albany earlier this year. ![]() The congestion warnings were the brainchild of Samuel I. Schwartz shortly after he became the city’s traffic commissioner in 1982. ![]()
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