Is the Lincoln Tunnel known for having bad traffic?
That answer can change hour to hour. Depends on if there’s construction or an accident or something else to mess up traffic. I’d probably be most inclined to go with the GWB or the Lincoln – but check the traffic reports on the radio before you set your trip in stone. Man If you promise that you will be doing this between 5: 00 and 5:30 AM you can route it this way From JFK take the Van Wyck north It will feed into the Grand Central Parkway Take the GCP to I-495 W aka The LIE aka The Long Island Expressway >your exit sign on the GCP will say” Midtown Tunnel” Take the LIE thru the Midtown Tunnel >pay toll $5.00 Exit the Tunnel heading “Downtown” Make a quick right onto 34th St and take that all the way across town to 9th Ave Left on 9th and then into the Lincoln Tunnel and onto Secaucus and more on.. http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702143729AAibwQe Sources:
Learning To Love The Lincoln Tunnel The fire extinguishers in the Lincoln Tunnel are numbered. You can read them in the ambient light as your bus moves sloth-ly through the morning rush hour bubble of congestion. Or in the slow parade of buses on your way back to the sweet pace of New Jersey heading home through who-knows-what kind of traffic. Makes you wonder why there’s no bus lane out of the big city, doesn’t it? We didn’t build the tunnel but it sure makes it a lot easier to go under the river to the other side. As a hapless commuter high up in a tall bus you can look down at car drivers and see how they grip the wheel when driving through the Lincoln Tunnel. Some drivers use one finger, (no, not that one), some a clenched fist. Some drivers are hands free when we are going nowhere fast in that long, dreary cavern. Their windows are rolled up tight against the fumes that gather here and must be sucked out through huge ventilating towers to the outside air above the Hudson River ove
