The American Highway Users Alliance released a report today that lists the 24 worst bottlenecks in the US. I was pleasantly surprised to see that none of them are in the Boston area. I suppose the umpteen billion dollars spent on the Big Dig is helping - for now.

The most notable bottleneck listed was the I-95 interchange in Providence. I've actually been stuck in that one, and it does suck mightily.

The alliance, you may be surprised to learn (but probably not) is made up of representatives of oil, automotive, trucking, and construction industry types, and representatives from state highway departments. Truly not surprising is that they're using the study to push for more money to "correct" these problems by building more/better roads. I'm not sure if that's going to work; it seems that demand for roads increases when capacity does.

Also not surprising is that there was little to no call for increased public/mass transit or incentives to carpool or otherwise dissuade one person one car. There was some talk about hiking the federal gas tax, though you can imagine how that's going over in an election year.