How is commuting along Route 9, Route 9a and Taconic Parkway?
Hi Kim, Timewise it’s not too bad if you leave early enough. I was commuting to Tarrytown from Beacon and as long as I left by 7:30 a.m. I was able to get in by 9:00 a.m. along both of those routes. Customarily I would check traffic reports (which you can now do online at maps.google.com – click on Traffic in the upper right-hand corner of the map. Colors will indicate various conditions: If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions will be displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per hour Red: less than 25 miles per hour Gray: no data currently available) Then, depending on the results, I would decide whether to take 84 to the Taconic or whether to go take 9D to 9 to 9A . I found the Taconic to be fast and winding with an overabundance of agressive drivers (I think I was one of them :-), and Route 9 to move more slowly, and which seemed to take forever. Tra
