America's Top 10 WORST Interchange Bottlenecks For Trucks | Can They Be Fixed?

One trucker summed up NYC rush hour on I-78 in one sentence: "A half a million rats all headed for the same hole in the wall.", perfectly put.

I’m glad you mention that in places like NYC you’ll NEVER be able to add enough lanes to fix the traffic. The demand is just too high. Even in Chicago highway expansions just don’t work because the pent up demand just fills any extra capacity built. The only way to truly move more people in large cities is to build more robust transit, but sadly many cities continue to double down on adding more freeway capacity, often at the expense of air quality and destroying buildings. The I-45 project in Houston alone will destroy over 1000 homes

The worst part about the George Washington Bridge approach is that all trucks have to use the upper level. The worst spot is where I-87 meets I-95 because all trucks have a very short distance to move over to the left and it just makes the traffic much worse

While I’m not a trucker, I have personally experienced the bottlenecks at I-20 / I-285 & I-85 / I-285 in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Glad GDOT is doing something about I-20 / I-285. The Tom Moreland Interchange (Spagetti Junction / I-85 & I-285) however might not be fixable. It’s already a massive behemoth of an interchange.

I-45 through Houston (Pierce Elevated) has needed fixing for 20 years. Glad to hear something is finally happening.

I know all too well about that I-40/I-24/I-440 confluence in SE Nashville...it is horrendous to deal with on peak traffic hours. Also, Nashville has three major interstates going through it, so all 3 are trying to cross over each other. The T-interchanges are literally where it happens at each end of where the concurrencies may happen. Be sure to watch signs carefully so you don't end up cutting across two lanes at the last moment.

Nashville is for sure a mess at the downtown beltway in the daytime. No matter which direction you're coming, thru traffic is forced to change lanes. I usually take the Briley Parkway around since I'm usually going from I-65 southbound to I-40 westbound or vice versa. Building a northwest leg of I-840 from I-40 to I-65 would be a huge traffic relief.

I'm glad Nashville made your list. That 24/40 split is terrible.

Surprised that I-10 I-110 interchange in Baton Rouge wasn’t on this list as the interstate goes down to one lane if you want to go east on I-10

This has been your best video by far ! I give it a 10 out of 10 and will spead it around to some of my fellow truckers ! As someone who grew up just a mile or 2 from Giant Stadium, the traffic northbound up across the George Washington Br and Cross Bronx Expressway is crazy 😝 bad !!

I'm thinking if they had to do it all over again, they probably should have extended the NJ Turnpike/I-95 northward of the I-80 junction to just west of the Tappan Zee/Cuomo Bridge (with a NJ Turnpike Connector in NYS like the GSP has). With I-287 terminating at the junction, I-95 would go east thru White Plains all the way to Rye, NY, then continue its original routing. I-80 would then continue east along I-95's current routing across the GW Bridge, Cross Bronx, and New England Thruway to terminate at the I-95 junction in Rye, NY.

The Jane Byrne (Circle) Interchange is pretty much finished, with further construction going on to the north on 90/94 (finally fixing the odd ramp system ). Probably the biggest fixable issue was the Northbound Dan Ryan to Westbound Eisenhower (NB90/94 to WB290), and that was the first thing worked on. Endemic problems include pretty much all the through traffic approaching the interchange, with the widening of the I-90/94 corridor through the interchange merely passing the problem further north ( the Hubbard Cave/Ohio Street Feeder section, already an issue beforehand, becomes more of a problem), plus it appears that the Eastbound Eisenhower (I-290) approach to the interchange has become a greater problem with backups. As for the I-88/290/294, the major issue is the westbound 294 to westbound 290, which the fly-under you mentioned will help out. That will, however, end up pushing problems further west on I-290 as traffic which had to trickle onto westbound 294 will be able to flow more readily once the (admittedly necessary) fly-under is built. More interesting is the building of I-490 on the West side of O'Hare Airport; I can see that road making things easier on 290 as traffic which would have taken 290 westbound up to 90 west could be persuaded to take 490 instead.

A major bottle neck you missed was I-10 east bound over the Mississippi river bridge in Baton Rouge, La where 2 lanes merge into 1 causing traffic to come to a stand still daily and at night too. God forbid LSU has a game, you would want to have a full tank of gas.

The tunnels that carry Amtrak and NJ Transit under the Hudson have been a significant issue since Hurricane Sandy flooded them in 2012. I don’t miss the delays from those tunnels. I’m always bothered by the Census and their constant reclassification of NYC Metro. By all realistic expectations, the Western CT counties and Orange and Dutchess counties in New York should still be classified as part of the MSA and not the CSA.

I don't have a whole lot of driving anecdotes, but my most memorable was the time I tried to enter the Cross Bx going north where the acceleration/deceleration lane was only about 200 to 300 feet long (and 50 feet in the air) . Traffic was flowing fast but heavy and an 18 wheeler would not let me in, so I had to take the exit and a long detour to get where I was going. I am sure people experience this regularly.

I-20 and 285 interchange in Atlanta is terrible smh i grew up around that interchange and that's all I'm used to and all I see is bottle necks especially during rush hour traffic🤦🏾‍♂️🤣

I know this isn’t really the topic of the video, but I-81 through most of Virginia is horrendous when it comes to traffic

The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit has super crazy traffic but they’re building the Gordie Howe Bridge to alleviate the pain thankfully

I'm happy that some states are kind of coming to their senses and instead of just shoving trucks into the right lane and "keeping the nuisances out of the way", making them stay left so local merging traffic filters easier.

I love this channel so much. I'm not sure why exactly but this subject is so captivating for me.