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Originally Posted by chris08876
Ah yes, the 4-5 hour drive to the country side, very true.
I find its easier to enter the city, but harder to escape it. When one is on the BQE/Belt Parkway/Cross-Bronx/LIC Expressway ... there's a thing called NYC special relativity that kicks in. When sitting in mind numbing traffic, time slows down. 20 minute delays feel like an hour. Hour long delays feel like 3 hours. Usually time slows down the faster one goes, but remember, this is NYC special relativity. There's a difference!!!
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Yeah, this summer I spent a lot of time at the beaches on Long Island. The drive out would vary from 40 minutes to over 2 hours, and most of the traffic bottlenecks were within NYC itself. The drive back into the city was a little more consistent, usually around 1-1.5 hours.
I've had many horrendous, hours long experiences waiting to cross the GWB into NY, though. But I'm more likely to be driving into the city on a Sunday night when there are a lot of people trying to get home.