Losing time on the Dan Ryan Expressway « Darryl Swint | Multimedia

Losing time on the Dan Ryan Expressway

The Dan Ryan Expressway.

Chicago commuters are familiar with the minutes, hours and ultimately days annually lost while sitting in northbound rush hour traffic. A recently released report identified one stretch of the highway as the second-worst traffic bottleneck in the country.

Rush-hour Chicago traffic bottlenecks

Courtesy of INRIX

For my Chicago Explainer story on windycitizen.com, I examined the 10 worst traffic tie-up locations in the metro area. I also created a couple of graphics. One graphic pinpoints these 10 traffic nightmare areas while another shows just how much time can be lost in a Chicago commute.

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