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    TRANSIT RIDERS, DRIVERS BRACE FOR INFLUX OF AMAZON EMPLOYEES

    Nov 23, 2018 4 minutes

    Commuters beware: New York and Washington’s clogged streets and creaky subway systems are about to feel more pain as 50,000 more people descend on the two metro areas where Amazon will open new headquarters.

    An expansion of that scope in a city such as New York — where the regional subway, bus and commuter lines move more than 8 million people every day — sounds like something a transit system should be able to absorb.

    Not so, some experts say.

    “Congestion will get worse. Buses will probably get a little bit slower. There are going to be more people travelingLong Island City, the New York City neighborhood that will be home to one of the new headquarters, sits across the river from the busy world of midtown Manhattan. The growing neighborhood is crisscrossed by subways and buses and surrounded by residential neighborhoods. The other headquarters will be in the Washington suburb of Arlington in northern Virginia, a part of the country known for its mind-numbing traffic.

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