CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The United States is sometimes one, big traffic jam, said Rebecca Brewster, President of the American Transportation Research Institute.
“There are just difficult, very congested locations around the country,” she said.
Her organization is out with its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the U.S., and Illinois had five locations on the list — all in Chicago.
“Where you see higher population density, you see greater demand for all the things that are delivered by trucks,” Brewster said. “You combine that with all the people in their vehicles and, in the case of some of the roadways in Chicago, some more aging infrastructure that wasn’t originally designed for the traffic levels you see today.”
The Tri-State at the Eisenhower is second on the list, the Eisenhower at the Byrne Interchange is number six on the list, and three more Chicago-area interchanges cracked the top 25.
“But the good news is, we always look to the Byrne Interchange as one of the earliest indicators of how this annual analysis is,” Brewster said. “When we started doing this, the Byrne Interchange — at that time it was a circle interchange — and it was the number one location on our list for three years in a row.”
The five Illinois bottlenecks are:
-No. 2, Chicago: I-294 at I-290/I-88
-No. 6, Chicago: I-290 at I-90/I-94
-No. 12, Chicago: I-80 at I-94
-No. 22, Chicago: I-90 at I-94 (South)
-No. 24, Chicago: I-90 at I-94 (North)
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