East Coast USA blizzard leads to travel ban
The East Coast of the United States is currently experiencing a blizzard of historic levels, leading to severe travel commercial travel bans across New York and Connecticut. Millions of drivers in the region are facing impossible conditions as the blizzard intensifies of the northeast coast with Delaware and Massachusetts seeing up to two feet of snow, bringing traffic to a complete halt.
The conditions in the East Coast are largely driven by 70mph wind gusts, making roads impassible and reducing visibility for drivers. “For anyone commuting or managing fleet logistics,” writes Autoblog, “the situation is escalating by the hour.”
The weather event is classified as a “bomb cyclone” where atmospheric pressure falls rapidly, causing a localised hurricane effect that combines with freezing temperatures. Snowfall in some areas is more than three inches per hour. The volume outpaces the ability of workers to clear the road, causing many key routes, including the New Jersey Turnpike, Interstate 95, and the Merritt Parkway being covered with deep snow and ice.
To prevent the hazards that come with snow and ice on the road and keep the lanes open for emergency responders, some states in the East Coast have taken drastic action. Commercial vehicles are the first to be restricted from using the highways.
New York has introduced a strict travel ban on all commuter vehicles including tractor-trailers (the American term for lorries) between Interstate 84 and points south, including vital delivery routes both in and out of New York City and Long Island.
Nearby Connecticut has issued a statewide emergency order prohibiting all commercial vehicles including heavy-duty trucks and tandem trailers across its limited access highways.
“These bans are not suggestions,” According to Autoblog, “state police are actively enforcing them.” This, it said, “means an immediate halt to supply chain movement across the northeast,” with fleet managers forced to reroute drivers to safe truck stops or staging areas “well outside the storm impact zone.”
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