We in SoCal gripe about the freeways all the time. It's nice to see the validation in writing.

Empty in here, isn't it ?

Named because it takes  you 4 or 5 hours to get anywhere!

Hey we let you travel for 200 miles for the same amount NY lets you go 200 yards trying to get into the city and what do we get?  Abuse....

Yes, we are aggressive.  We're always late for an appointment, and we have to work like maniacs to pay the taxes (We are #2 per capita in the amount that we are taxed and are #50 in the amount per capita we get back from Uncle Sam).  Mass transit is a joke (The train from Bay Head to New York (including a switch over in Long Branch) will run you 2 hours.) I can DRIVE it in 75 minutes.

The good news is you can do 70-80 as EVERYONE flies on this road.  Just don't don't do it at night when you are a lonely target.

As for the smells..... Hey, every exit a new olfactory experience... (Cows in Mercer county, Fast Food joints on exit 4, and my personal favorite... the chemical plants in Elizabeth... A popular local joke: A tourist drives through Nj and asks his friend, a local, a question.... "Who is this woman Elizabeth and why does she smell SO bad?"

The only constant on the CBX-way, a part of I-95, is stoppped traffic. Between 0600 and 2100, there is a constant traffic jam in both directions. You can walk it faster than you can drive it.
  The worst part is that there is no constant part of the night which it will be open. You can run into a traffic jam at 0130 just as easy as 0700.
  This is the one factor that has kept me from attending more NY Yankee games. Love baseball. Hate CBX.

How about 17 between San host Santa Cruz what's the death rate there?

the World's bigest parking lot

I agree.  The LIE on a late Friday afternoon during the summer can make you contemplate suicide.  And why does traffic just stop dead on a Sunday afternoon around Glen Cove?

1. I-76 in and around Philadelphia also known as The Schuykill Expressway (pronounced "Skoo-kill," or if you're actually from South Philly, "Skookle").  It's a mind numbing, adrenalin pumping, exhaustingly winding highway designed by a 3-year old with on-ramps and off-ramps on left and right sides of the road so that you're never sure which lane to drive in due to traffic entering and exiting.  Not that that really matters because Pennsylvania drivers just LOVVVVVE the left lane and are determined to spend their entire lifetime driving experiences in it -- except for when I'm in the righthand lane!

2. I-95 in and around Washington DC also known as the Beltway because after you've driven that Nascar approved race track you need about 3 belts of Chivas to calm down! I think the average mandated speed on that beauty is about 190 mph.

3. I-75 in and around Tampa.  The sluggish traffic on that road always comes to a mysterious complete halt and then just as mysteriously resumes up to 65 mph.  It's a 3 lane highway where the righthand lane is almost always wide open. (Must be transplanted Pennsylvanians driving there.)

I'd also agree with his assessment of the NJ Turnpike, especially the part about keeping your windows closed in North Jersey because of the offensive odors.  There's an old saying -- "Kiss Her Where It Smells, Take Her To New Jersey!"

1) Those who live in places like Freeport wish to see how the other half live;
 2) Those who come from places like Freeport are returning to their live-in jobs (maid, gardener, boatboy, etc); and/or,
 3) Everybody wants to see where John McEnroe grew up.

**Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm not being PC. The Sam Kinnison in me is running amok again.

Also, don't forget the junction in Wayne where Rt.s 46, 23, and 80 all converge in a hodgepodge of turns, left and right merges, and high speed turns where a Jedi couldn't react fast enough to the threats coming from all directions........

You should try driving on the UK

as a frequent visitor to the US (mainly California, Nevada, NY and Florida) I can assure you guys I have never, never seen traffic as bad as in the UK, and of all the Freeways (or as we call them Motorways, The M25 caps the lot. Took me 4 hours to drive 25 miles last week from Heathrow to Home. It's known as Europe's largest car park.

-- Modified on 3/5/2004 3:54:30 PM

As long as they keep the tolls on the Parkway every 10 miles, it will be the worse road in NJ hands down.

Re:You should try driving on the UK

When its good its really good- when its bad -totally blows-

I-95, between the joining of the capital beltway around College Park, and the Mixing Bowl - yea, what a pit.  I don't even know why they post speed limit signs anywhere around the beltway.  It's posted at 55, but 72 is probably the average - when and if you avoid traffic jams.  The stretch around the Wilson Bridge backs up four or five miles every day, as does the Mixing Bowl where 95 leaves the Beltway and heads south.  Yuck.  

Oh, and I get to drive that stretch every day.  Timing is everything though.  Time it right and you fly the whole way; 10 minutes later and you sit for a while.

For much of that distance SR17 doesn't qualify as a freeway, just
a piss-poor road. But still, Faye Desiree was at the Santa Cruz
end, a redeeming feature!

(EOM)