Little Routing help please

I agree!

 

I agree but the toll roads don’t really do you much good anyway on this crapper of a trip. There’s always a bridge toll to go east of the Hudson River (unless you’re already on a tolled road like 90), but other than that:

71-76-80-81-84-691-91-95-395 looks to me like what *I* would probably do to stay strictly on controlled access interstate routes. I don’t mind dodging tolls when it makes sense but I loathe getting off onto the small stuff and will happily burn a few extra bucks in fuel to avoid it. Especially in that part of the country.

 

The very thought of running that route gives me hives and raises my BP to cardiologist unapproved levels. And I’ve ran more than my fair share of miles in “EZ-Pass country”

 

Check that: I’m running up 380 to 84 to bypass Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and 81. That can get surprisingly nasty through there at the wrong time

 

They must have I-80 in NJ back open again then. There was a HUGE mess around the NJ-15 interchange in Rockaway last spring because of a sinkhole from an old coal mine. Had both directions shut down for months.

IMO running 84 over the Newburgh-Beacon to bypass NJ and downstate NY altogether is usually the better idea, but 84 in CT can be just as much of a traffic nightmare as 95 during PM rush hour and Hartford can be a little scary with the S-curves and idiots.

90 straight to MA is by far the easiest way to get into New England if you don’t need CT.

 

that’s just a tough part of the country to have to shut down overnight in…I wouldn’t enjoy running OTR around there either. I’ve got a couple hidey holes but most of the truck stops are overcrowded nightmares by 5-6pm. IMO them parts usually ain’t even worth messing with.