NYC Takes the Prize... For Worst Traffic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 15, 2021

Sam Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam at the Daily News, former NYC Traffic Commissioner, president and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, a transportation planning and engineering firm, and author of No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future (Public Affairs, 2018), discusses a new report which shows that New York City had the worst traffic in the country this past year and discusses the future of gridlock in the City.

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