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Originally posted by Chewbaccus
<sigh> I pity the out-of-towners that were told to take the GW as the best way into the city. It NEVER is. EVER. Belive me, my brother drove us from Pgh. back home once that way and learned his lesson.
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Before I moved to the East Coast, the worst traffic I ever experienced was during evening rush hour in Chicago...and Chicago isn't even considered one of the worst traffic cities anymore.
Then I lived in DC for a year...you have not been to hell unless you've been on the Capital Beltway during evening rush hour on a Friday. I hear Atlanta is even worse.
But last year, my fiance and I went to visit relatives in Boston. We lived in DC at the time and decided to drive up there (we rented a car). I had never been north of Philly, but I figured that driving through NYC would be a bitch.
Boy was I ever right...
We lived near 95 in DC (as we do now), so the ride was pretty straightforward. Things were pretty good as we hit Philadelphia about 5pm. The NJ Turnpike was good as well, and we stopped at the Lombardi Travel Center around 7 or so.
It then took us 3 1/2 hours to drive from there to the NY/CT state line, including 2 hours on the GW Bridge. I believe that distance is about 60 miles or so.
3 1/2 hours?! I thought I had stepped into a parallel universe...what I thought would be 8-9 hours took almost 13 hours.
On the way back, we rolled through the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, then crossed the Verazzano. It cost a little more, but it only took us 45 minutes to get through the city.
I now know better...