Attention Please! YOU WILL FIT UNDER THE OVERPASS!
I just want to make that clear. The other day heading in to NYC I watched a truck lock up all his brakes and come to a dead stop in the middle of the road... NOT COOL GUY!
They mark the bridges strangely, but a 13'6" trailer will go under em.
NYC and the BQE, Cross Bronx, ETC
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by jeff1981, Dec 1, 2011.
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I have seen the same thing, if there was any questioning it, stay in the center lane after you get over the GW bridge.
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I saw guy knock the top off his trailer in Long Island City one morning on my way to work. One of those low railroad overpasses off a side street. This guy must been must have been a little too fresh because it was pretty obvious it was too low for 13'6" clearance even if it wasn't marked.
Yeah BQE and Cross Bronx are interstate routes (I-278 and I-95). Those have to be 13'6" minimum. -
The BQE has an exclusion area, where most trucks are prohibited, and need to run parallel on Astoria boulevard, I believe, the stretch can be avoided by running the 495(Long Island Expressway) east and crossing the sound via the Bronx-Whitestone.The exclusion is marked on the NYC trucking map, I have the 2010 version now. I have never had the occasion to run the GW eastbound, always go to Brooklyn first, so far.
My friends call Goethals the G. I'll check this when I get home and correct if needed. -
Actually you can run a truck all the way across the BQE. There are signs all over the place right by the Brooklyn Bride but just stay to the left and you will be ok. I do it all the time along with a ton of other drivers. -
Now they've raised the tolls on the bridges again, we won't haul anything. The roads suck and the tolls are outrageous.
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Alright, bubba mark, you run the Grand Central Pkwy with a 13'6" 18. The exclusion, according to the map, is exit 44 onto Astoria Blvd, North and get back on the 278. to cross the RFK.
I don't do it enough to know what not to believe on the map. I have been warned off pkwys by locals. -
25(2)+2 Thanks this.
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Can't take a truck on the Parkways.
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I forgot to add 278 runs back into 87. Grand Central pkwy is a completely different road.
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