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Since you are all the second word of my current subtitle, I have decided to tell you some of my secrets for driving.
In this first post, I will address the Triboro (RFK) and Whitestone Bridges, which should not really exist.
To travel from Long Island (Queens, Brooklyn) to the Bronx or Westchester without paying tolls, do this:
1. Take one of the free East River bridges to Manhattan. (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, 59th Street Bridges)
2. Take FDR north past the Triboro (RFK) to the small “Willis Avenue Bridge” which crosses the Harlem River and is free. Or, the 3rd avenue, or Madison Avenue, or 145th Street, or Macombs Dam Bridge, or Washington Bridge (by 181st), or W Fordham Road, or Broadway.
3. There is no step 3; there are only two steps. And you still couldn’t figure it out.
More brilliance to come, sometime.
One word answer:
traffic
Popa, that’s the Kuntz? Let me see you get from New Jersey to Brooklyn without paying toll (or a fine).
See what all that caffeine does.
Somehow I picture you driving in fast forward. lol
Dunn Memorial Bridge? As in the one in Albany?
popa Dunn Memorial Bridge
What & where is this?
Of course there is more traffic. That is because everybody goes that way.
Because they’re cheap, not because they’re in a hurry.
You reminded me, by the way, of Yogi Berra’s comment that nobody goes to a certain restaurant anymore, because it’s always too crowded.
Okay, so I’ll revise HaLeiVi’s question:
Let me see you get from New Jersey to Brooklyn without paying toll (or a fine) – and without paying six times the amount for gas!
only MILDLY Retarted???????????
Toll on 87 buddy, unless you plan on riding local streets down from the Dunn.
The traffic on the free East River bridges and FDR that you will encounter isn’t people doing your route. You are the only one going that way because any chochom will pay the toll and do the direct route. Sorry.
yitay: Park in Jersey City take the water taxi to downtown, pick up a zipcar and go over the Brooklyn bridge, how’s that?
Touche if you had stopped there. But you did yourself in with the “besides”. Only a real OOT hick redneck Rube would think that the times on google maps mean anything in NY. Now I doubt that tou’ve ever driven in NY. Its a one minute difference if you are in post apocalypse NY. Otherwise, its plus 60 minutes or more.
I thought the mods don’t allow outside links, but then again popa is no outsider.
Genius. Ul’ta’ameich just take a bus anywhere you need to go, and you never have to pay tolls while traveling.
Genius. Ul’ta’ameich just take a bus anywhere you need to go, and you never have to pay tolls while traveling.
even better, take a helicopter. No tolls and much faster than a bus.
Indeed I did not click on the links. What gave it away?
Call me arrogant if you will, but I feel that I have nothing to learn from google maps about driving in the ny metro area. I could do either route in my sleep (and I have, once).
Popa, you are soooo 2011!
I got myself a second generation jetpack this past summer that allows me to go ANYWHERE in the quickest, cheapest, and funnest way. Why deal with traffic, gas stations, or even bridges when you can tango with the Canadian geese or drop raw eggs on churches from 1000 ft up as you leisurely glide to you destination? People who deal with cars these days, tsk tsk, I mean are you for real?! Powered skydiving is the way to go, friends.
oh, and did I mention the view?
popa_bar_abba
Mildly Retarded
Since you are all the second word of my current subtitle, I have decided to tell you some of my secrets for driving.
Request for Mods: Can you please modify popa’s subtitle again, slightly? I’m looking for something where the second word changes…. for humor’s sake in posterity. May I suggest, “Rarely Decent, Mildly Retarded and Eccentric”? It will be fun. TIA.
A helicopter will cost you a lot of fuel. I’d suggest using a blimp. Finding parking might be a bit of a challenge.
Nebach – I see popa is off his meds again. Refuah Shelayma.
Squeak- thanks for your idea. Now we are all decent. I was really worried about being retarded.
ePf – Wow! This is your second post, and your a member for 4 1/2 years!
real-brisker
I guess hes not a big talker…
WIY – Or he has more than one…
pba: i drove that route frequently in the somewhat distant past but I always went thru Queens Plaza got over to the right for the beginning of Queens Blvd. but then cut right on Van Dam and sraight a few lights then under the LIE and left to the entrance.
I remember there was something tricky there, separate exit ramp or something, is it still like that?
lol, popa got a new subtitle. How nice of the mod to just take my suggestion like that! Thanks!
Popa, no hard feelings I hope 🙂 I’ve had “driving in the car with popa” TTTO “Lucy in the Sky” going through my head for two days now.
LOL! pba- you should seriously consider doing standup comedy.. or maybe you already do? In that case, you must be….!!!
hey look at the first post in here,
thanks for the compliment!
That is a perfect example of why I hate GPS. I discovered that trick 30 years ago and no one wised up to the stupidity, but now that every idiot can effortlessly do the bypass I have a feeling it will be stopped.
That is a perfect example of why I hate GPS. I discovered that trick 30 years ago and no one wised up to the stupidity, but now that every idiot can effortlessly do the bypass I have a feeling it will be stopped.
Don’t worry, these idiots are still trying to figure out how to get to Staten Island.
And israeli fellow who don’t speak or read much english borrowed my GPS and hit the “avoid toll roads” options when trying to go from monsey to broklyn, well guess what he was headed to the Dunn memorial bridge, to cross the hudsoon without tolls. He was wondering why it took him so long?!???!?
Well, there ya have it.
Popa, at any time they could put a toll plaza on the re-entry ramp. Of course, I’m talking about stopping us from taking the two minute detour that just skips the toll. You’re right that you could bypass the entire road, either by slow roads or on rt. 40 (which is a slow road too), but that is not worth it.
Also, if we’re really sharing tips, you should only take 295 on the way back when the Gap bridge is free. On the way there you should be on 95.
One can always head over to Fort Lee, NJ bike across the GWB, down the West Side to the Brooklyn Bridge, save the tolls and still catch Maariv at the Marriot.
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