Cross Bronx worst road to jamnation

The Bronx is crawling. The Cross Bronx Expressway is so traffic-clogged that it earned two of the worst spots in the rankings of the nation’s slowest roadways — one for each direction.

The snarled stretches of pocked asphalt were joined by two other major Big Apple roads on the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard’s worst-10 list, published Monday.

The findings came as no shock to area drivers who have lost countless hours sitting in the soup.

“I’m surprised it’s not the worst congestion on the planet,” said Tony Rodriguez, 45, who drives his Jeep Wrangler on the Cross Bronx Expressway daily.

“It’s ridiculous. I sit in traffic for 2¹/2 hours every day.

“Everybody knows you need at least one extra hour if you’re taking the Cross Bronx.”

Charlie Thomas, 24, who lives in the Soundview section of the borough, agreed that the Cross Bronx is the toughest road for a commute.

“There is always traffic, always bumper to bumper,” he said.

“I drive through all kinds of back streets trying to avoid the Cross Bronx. But you can’t. I sit on it for hours every day.”

INRIX has found traffic on the Cross Bronx to be horrific each year it has studied it, said company senior economist Bob Pishue.

“Travelers on the Cross Bronx Expressway sit in traffic more than on any other road in the United States,” he said.

Other New York City roads listed in INRIX’s 10 most con- gested include Fifth and Sixth avenues and I-495 coming through the Lincoln Tunnel to 12th Avenue.

New York overall came in third in the world in terms of conges- tion, behind Los Angeles and Moscow.

Other cities with horrible traffic included San Francisco; Bogota, Colombia; São Paulo, Brazil; and London.

INRIX dubs itself the world leader in transportation analytics. The Washington-state-based firm examined 1,064 cities across 38 countries in one of the largest traffic studies ever conducted.