I-95 Cross Bronx Expressway

Word of advice, even if it is legal stay out of left lane. Some cops think trucks aren't allowed in left lane anywhere. Also, if two vehicles driving side by side are speeding and go through a radar trap, chances are vehicle in left lane will be the one being pulled over. I only use left lane for passing.

Adam

 

I haven't seen a speed trap on the Cross Bronx in better than a decade. Also, there is just about nowhere for you to pull over and they're not likely to stop you in the lane, during any of the higher-traffic hours anyway.

Wouldn't worry about this too much unless you're one of the drivers that leaps into the left lane from the merge ramp and hammers across at 65+ mph. That might get their attention.

 

Generally, traffic dictates that you can't speed. Only at night can you even consider doing more than 10 over the speed limit. And then the potholes do a great job of deterring that thought.

 

Ok...Forget the Brady Bunch Cross Bronx (i-95)...Or the Super Brady bunch i-287


Lets Talk Major Deegan (87) Down over the Triboro(My favorite bridge) into Astoria or Long Island City...

lets talk that for you out of towner pulling your clumsy 53' footers..

lets run Down to the Brooklyn-queens expresway and play around in North Brooklyn and west Queens.........

then We'll take some photo shots of the Hell's Gate and the manhattan bridge....


Anyway........

Most of you guys think its an 'accomplishment' because you crossed the GW over to the New england expressway (i95 north).......

BIG DEAL!! Start heading South on i87 and play around down there

 

I learned to drive a truck down there. Doing Wendy's and Popeyes restaurant delivery, mostly. Coffin sleeper Century's with 48' reefers. Good times. Parallel parking on Continental Ave in Forest Hills, double parking on Flatbush Ave, backing down a corkscrew ramp blindside under a building in Rego Park, with a 13'6" clearing the water piping by a half inch.

Comparatively, the Cross Bronx is a superhighway. Doesn't make it suck any less, but it isn't really metro driving til you get off the big road

 

Not gonna say wont get popped for it--but if Im WB--hes gonna have to talk to me in Jersey--eastbound--well itll probably be under the L--past westchester Av---LOL...oh and piece of advice for a yall not too familiar--ifn you are WB--GET in the hammer lane--at 3d ave--right where its ok--because between the construction and trux comin up the corkscrew trying to get on the upper level...we'll you'll see--LOL

 

I remember the City well from my days at Stevens.

Going down Broadway or crossing the Manhattan Bridge at Canal St to get to the meat markets on Gansevoort and Little West 12th Street. Western Beef in Queens (are they still open?) The Brooklyn meat market off of 1st Ave by the docks. Place called Melba Utica on Utica Ave south of Atlantic. And a real hole in the wall place off Jewett Ave on Staten Island.

Compared to those, the Hunts Point market was a cakewalk.

 

Been there done that Pak---& yes Western Beef---home of AWESUM Transport still alive&well---& I miss little w 12th---the floorshow from all the characters in all the neighborhood joints almost worth the cover charge(tolls)---&melba Utica still one of our regulars---course we sneak in from the other side & run ft.hamilton Pkwy to Linden to Utica instead of runnin all the way to atlantic---lol

 

I was stuck for hours at Western Beef once so I made the best of it and did some grocery shopping. Made a ####### pastrami and provolone sub.

 

Noticed last week the traffic signs were lit up warning trucks about the left lane, for me it's normally middle lane till about a mile before the Whitestone. Same thing going west till the bridge over the Bronx river parkway jump in the left lane to avoid the launch ramp then back before the drop off that is a storm drain, both of those will get your attention if your not ready.


On a side note after the run I had last Friday Ny has room to spar. had a drop in center city Philly with a 53 footer, place was on the corner of S 10th St and Sansom st. Luckily I run a day cab so it wasn't too bad but still #### tight in the end I was too tall for the dock and had to off load in the street