The rotten core of driving in the Big Apple is the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, better known as the B.Q.E. As the New York Times wrote last year, "Most days, and most hours, the dire choices faced by many drivers on the B.Q.E. are these: Bad, worse and no exit."
Despite a number of hopeful notes in the continuing turnaround at General Motors, the automaker's North American ops are still dealing with the same problems.