Zlotnik said the lawsuit is not slowing down OCTA’s efforts. However, Long Beach sued OCTA this year over the widening plan, saying the Orange County agency should pay the city more for improvements that will be needed to local streets to accommodate the traffic. Construction is expected to begin in 2017 with a completion date of 2022. 9, the OCTA board short-listed four firms interested in designing and building the project, according to spokesman Joel Zlotnik. L.A.’s worst bottleneck was along a stretch of the 405 Freeway between state Route 22 and the 605 Freeway, where the annual cost of delay exceeded $190 million, wasting 1.8 million gallons of gas and resulting in 36.7 million pounds of CO2, with daily backups of more than 4 miles long. But the Los Angeles region had far more bottlenecks than any other metropolitan area, claiming the second through seventh worst spots, as well as the 11th, 13th, 14th, 29th, 30th and 40th. “As a long-term surface transportation bill moves through conference, I urge our elected leaders to provide the funding growth and policies that are necessary to improve commutes, to raise the bar for safety, and to keep the country moving in the 21st century,” Foxx said.Ĭhicago had the country’s worst bottleneck. “The good news is that this problem is solvable, and Congress can be part of the solution.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.
“This report furthers the unassailable truth that America is stuck in traffic,” U.S. The study measured traffic by hours of delay, finding that six of the “top 10” most congested roads were located in the Los Angeles area. The second-most congested roadway in the nation is in Long Beach and northern Orange County, the notorious stretch of the 405 Freeway between the 22 and 605 freeways, according to a federal study released Monday.
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