The inhabitants of Miami that use the southbound lanes of US-1 between SW 100th Street and SW 168th Street for rush hour travel, They can lose up to 37 hours on the journeyrevealed a INRIX studya global analytics firm that publishes research on the world’s most congested metropolises.
The ranking prepared by INRIX places Ives Dairy Roadeastbound from NE 199th Street to Biscayne Blvd during the morning rush hour (8:00 a.m. ET), on second positionbecause a total of 35 hours are lost on that route.
In third place is the morning commute in Dolphin Expressway entre Palmetto Expressway y la I-95, with 32 hours lost in traffic. Followed by the evening leg (4:00 p.m. Eastern Time) of US-1 westbound from South Miami Ave to Rosaro Ave in Coral Gables, with a total of 30 hours.
Finally, it appears 826 westbound from Biscayne Blvd. to the NW 7th Ave extension, near Miami Gardens and North Miami, with 30 hours lost as well.
The recent report points out Miami-Dade as one of the most congested metropolitan areas in the world.
Delays in transit from one place to another in the City of the Sun had a 30% increase between 2021 and 2022a figure that translated into 105 hours of travel lostthe study points out.
“That means drivers wasted that time traveling during traffic hours versus non-traffic hours and it costs us money,” he added. Bob PishueINRIX traffic analyst, in statements collected by NBC6.
These considerations led the specialists of this firm to establish the aforementioned ranking, which serves as a warning to drivers in that Florida city.
Although it has also allowed us to observe some positive changes in Miami traffic.
“What we’ve also seen in a lot of places is that, especially on some major interstates, while traffic is as bad as the pre-COVID level at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., it’s sort of slowed down to 7:00 p.m., unlike the old days when it took until 8:00 p.m.,” Pishue said.
Two years agowhen the world was still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the I-95 highway in Miami was considered the “most stressful in the United States,” according to a study of national traffic based on the opinions of users of the social network Twitter, today X.
The Cuban comedian and former member of the group Semicolon Javier Berridy He used his ingenuity in 2022 and taking advantage of the popularity of the song “Everything is OK”, by Fixty Ordara and Ja Rulay, described one of the main headaches of drivers in the City of the Sun.
“Miami is OK, but it runs like an ox / The 836 is always packed and there is never a break / Traffic on the Expressway is crazy”says the lyrics of his musical parody.
Recently, the TikTok user Mejiawzi2a2 He showed what he considers “a common day in Miami” and his video went viral.
In the brief audiovisual you can see how a driver jumps the yellow line and tries to overtake another, in the middle of a traffic jam on a busy avenue. The situation ends with both drivers involved in a heated argument..
