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Traffic would be cut in half if we just did one thing. BAN PENNSYLVANIANS!
It seems most of the people with PA plates on their cars are former NYers or NJ people. They all got sucked in by the ads for 1-800-WHY-RENT?
"Only 90min from NYC" (if you leave your house in the Poconos at 4am). I worked in Fair Lawn with a guy who lived in Stroudsburg, he said the traffic by him at 5am was like the traffic in Fair Lawn at 7.
People don't know how to merge, you have 3 lanes of rt 80 traffic, that becomes 5 lanes where 2 lanes of rt 15 come in and then it narrows down to 4. Then when you get by rt 287 all these people can't orderly merge to the exit lane. The have to go along in the second or third lane then cut into the front of the exit lane causing people in the exit lane to have to break hard. Try driving a tractor trailer down that section and have to get onto 287 south. As a truck driver you have to leave some space between you and the car in front. The is ALWAYS A FEW ASSH*LES who don't want to get stuck behind a truck for all of 30 seconds on the entrance ramp so they cut over at the last minute.
Years ago I met someone on the unemployment line from New Mexico or something. He'd gotten laid off from his job and said he was going back to New Mexico. He summed up the drivers around here pretty well. He said, "Everyone has to be first!"
This was at least 30yrs ago, and things haven't gotten any better.
Rt80 also backs up in the am east and west bound around the Madison Ave, rt 20 area in Paterson. It goes from 4 lanes to 3 lanes back to 4 again, with heavy exits, and idiots who wait for the last second to exit.
Yeah, the exit lane for 287 off of rt 80 west needs to be twice as long and two lane wide and partitioned off....kind of like the exit lane is for rt 78 E of of 287N. All the money and time they spent on that section of rt 80, the traffic is no better (probably worse)
Also, I remember in the 90's there was mandated pressure of corporations of over 100 employee's to get cars off the roads. I remember some company's went to a compressed workweek with one day off a week, and others sponsored car pool vans, etc. Now that many jobs can be performed anywhere, why are more people not working from home? Something has to give....the roads are not getting any wider and they keep building more houses.
Having had to switch to this commute this week, I was dreading the absolute worst. It’s not good, no question... but it hasn’t been as bad as I thought so far...
The first day (Monday, of course) I left Mt. Arlington at 6:00 a.m., about an hour earlier than I would leave for work in Fair Lawn. I got to work in East Orange in about 45 minutes.
I gradually started leaving later. Thursday and Friday, I left at 6:30 a.m. It still took 40-45 minutes. So, I think 6:30 is going to be my official leave time. The traffic getting home yesterday late afternoon around 5:30, however, was rough. It took me an hour to get home.
It’s a bit tougher than the Parkway commute, but not a whole lot. Some of the crunches between the Essex and Union tolls during rush hour can drive you just as mad as a typical Route 80 truck fire. I’m not a fan of driving with trucks now, but I’m sure not gonna miss the tolls. (And the MPG average on my car is WAY up.)
Having had to switch to this commute this week, I was dreading the absolute worst. It’s not good, no question... but it hasn’t been as bad as I thought so far...
The first day (Monday, of course) I left Mt. Arlington at 6:00 a.m., about an hour earlier than I would leave for work in Fair Lawn. I got to work in East Orange in about 45 minutes.
I gradually started leaving later. Thursday and Friday, I left at 6:30 a.m. It still took 40-45 minutes. So, I think 6:30 is going to be my official leave time. The traffic getting home yesterday late afternoon around 5:30, however, was rough. It took me an hour to get home.
It’s a bit tougher than the Parkway commute, but not a whole lot. Some of the crunches between the Essex and Union tolls during rush hour can drive you just as mad as a typical Route 80 truck fire. I’m not a fan of driving with trucks now, but I’m sure not gonna miss the tolls. (And the MPG average on my car is WAY up.)
I left at 6:30 today and it took an hour to get to bergen county.....was a stand-still up to rt 15 merge.
Rt. 80 is one of the reasons I left Warren County after a brief stint. The traffic was simply horrendous.
I now take Rt. 23 and 287. They're both still awful, but I'll take them in a heartbeat over 80. Anything but 80.
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