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NewLeaf2012
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Best time to head to PA from LI
We are leaving for Lancaster on Sunday... I plan on leaving my house at 9am... I HATE the belt parkway and SIE. Should that be a good time? I haven't been that way on a weekend in a LONG time and I usually don't leave that early and am stuck in loads of traffic!
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MissJones
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Best time to head to PA from LI
Honestly, we leave much earlier. If it's a 5 hour + drive, we leave before sunrise. DS is in pajamas and sleeps most of the ride. We make great time and avoid all of that congestion.
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| Posted 6/10/15 5:04 AM |
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Blubtrflygrl
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
I also recommend taking a different route and not going on those two roads. If you avoid them, you should be fine.
When I head off LI on the weekend, I'm fine leaving around 9. Especially on a Sunday.
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| Posted 6/10/15 5:13 AM |
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BargainMama
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Best time to head to PA from LI
I definitely wouldn't take that way. I would probably cut through Manhattan on a Sunday morning or take the GWB. We took the SIE and Belt recently to Wildwood, and it was torture. Pure torture.
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| Posted 6/10/15 7:18 AM |
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DMT
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
I drive to PA all the time on weekends. I am out of the house by 8am the latest on Saturday or Sunday and I take the Throngs Neck to the GW to I80
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| Posted 6/10/15 7:48 AM |
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alexb
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Best time to head to PA from LI
Whatever you do, download the app WAZE to avoid traffic
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| Posted 6/10/15 8:12 AM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
We go on a weekday but we leave around 9:30/10 am- that helps us miss most of the rush hour traffic.
We have done it 3 years in a row and NEVER sat in much traffic.
Other than maybe a small back up on the belt here and there, but there is ALWAYS a small back up on the belt- DH used to go to work at 11 pm and there was traffic on the belt.
But to be honest it was never anything insane.
That is a weekday though.
On a weekend you can probably get away with leaving earlier and be fine
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JDubs
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Any time we have driven to PA (Philly, Sesame place areas though) we left at around 6-630am on a weekend. Driving through the SIE is the WORST so we try to leave as early as we can to beat any traffic. Coming back we are always stuck though.
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NewLeaf2012
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by JDubs
Any time we have driven to PA (Philly, Sesame place areas though) we left at around 6-630am on a weekend. Driving through the SIE is the WORST so we try to leave as early as we can to beat any traffic. Coming back we are always stuck though.
We always get stuck coming back!!! No matter what time!!!! I am going to map out a few routes and then check the traffic that morning. Thanks everyone...
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| Posted 6/10/15 9:54 AM |
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rugratmama
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
We just did that drive last Sunday. We left at 11. Got there by 2:30.
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| Posted 6/10/15 7:31 PM |
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bklyngirl
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
i live in SI and I feel the belt is worse than the expressway. I always like to get an early start
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| Posted 6/10/15 7:45 PM |
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LoveBug302
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
were leaving on Sunday for Lancaster too! We usually leave about 6-6:30 because we eat breakfast in Lancaster. It takes about 3 hours to get there.
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| Posted 6/10/15 8:12 PM |
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newbie00
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Best time to head to PA from LI
We live in NJ and we always take the GWB to get to and from the island.
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| Posted 6/10/15 8:57 PM |
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NewLeaf2012
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by LoveBug302
were leaving on Sunday for Lancaster too! We usually leave about 6-6:30 because we eat breakfast in Lancaster. It takes about 3 hours to get there.
We usually leave on a weekday.... If it was just me and my son going, I would leave by 7am. But there are other people coming so the earliest we can leave is 9... I guess I will find out if it is a good time on Sunday... I can go around traffic on Staten Island. It is the Belt that is brutal....
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| Posted 6/10/15 10:38 PM |
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juanvi
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by MissJones
Honestly, we leave much earlier. If it's a 5 hour + drive, we leave before sunrise. DS is in pajamas and sleeps most of the ride. We make great time and avoid all of that congestion.
Same like 3-4 am
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JennP
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by BargainMama
I definitely wouldn't take that way. I would probably cut through Manhattan on a Sunday morning or take the GWB. We took the SIE and Belt recently to Wildwood, and it was torture. Pure torture.
On a late Sunday morning in the summer, I would go through Manhattan too.
I wouldn't really do that on any other day or time, but the beach and vacation traffic will be brutal.
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NervousNell
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by rugratmama
We just did that drive last Sunday. We left at 11. Got there by 2:30.
Yes I was going to say, on a weekend it should be fine.
Hell, I leave on a weekday at like 930 -10 am and still make it to Lancaster by 1 pm
Too early to even get our room!
No need to leave in the middle of the night
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LoveBug302
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
Posted by NewLeaf2012
Posted by LoveBug302
were leaving on Sunday for Lancaster too! We usually leave about 6-6:30 because we eat breakfast in Lancaster. It takes about 3 hours to get there.
We usually leave on a weekday.... If it was just me and my son going, I would leave by 7am. But there are other people coming so the earliest we can leave is 9... I guess I will find out if it is a good time on Sunday... I can go around traffic on Staten Island. It is the Belt that is brutal....
I think it will still be ok leaving at that time. The only issue I always worry about is roadwork. Last summer they were doing roadwork on the NJ tpk coming and going and it was a disaster. Sometimes they do some roadwork right when u get into SI too. Like everyone else said no matter when you come home, the belt is always a disaster ugh. We just leave early because we like to make it for breakfast in Lancaster by 9-9:30. Some of the smorgasbords we like stop serving at 10 lol.
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| Posted 6/11/15 11:21 AM |
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NewLeaf2012
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Re: Best time to head to PA from LI
We left a few minutes after 9 and hit NJ at 10am.... No traffic at all!!!!!! Coming home tomorrow will be a whole other story!!! LOL
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tomcat
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