2013 Brick/Wall, NJ meet

[Alps]

Facebook page is up, RSVPs are open, while it's on my mind. Or reply to this thread.

June 29, 11:30 AM - Quaker Steak & Lube, Brick, NJ

GSP Interchange 88/89 construction, CR 528 and NJ 13 drawbridges, CR 528/549 surface cloverleaf, NJ 18/138 stub, all followed by a Lakewood BlueClaws baseball game.

https://www.facebook.com/events/393531500760643/

[Roadgeek Adam]

Heh I get to a Quaker Steak and Lube.

Pardoning anything changing, I am in.

[PHLBOS]

Maybe at the moment.  Might be able to do the meet but not the game.  I will update later.

[dgolub]

How late is it planned to go?  If it doesn't go too late, I might be able to make it work.

[Duke87]

Totally in, and did someone say baseball game?

[Alps]

How late is it planned to go?  If it doesn't go too late, I might be able to make it work.

Oh, you can leave at any point during the tour if needed. The meet should be getting back to the restaurant in the 5-5:30 window, but it's easy to plan if you need to leave sooner. You may not be the only one.

[Takumi]

I put "maybe" on Facebook, but it's very unlikely.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Probably not going to have time, given that I'm about to switch jobs and have to budget my time off differently.

[dgolub]

How late is it planned to go?  If it doesn't go too late, I might be able to make it work.

Oh, you can leave at any point during the tour if needed. The meet should be getting back to the restaurant in the 5-5:30 window, but it's easy to plan if you need to leave sooner. You may not be the only one.

The reason I'm asking is that I don't own a car and would be taking the bus to get there and back from Manhattan, which appears to be a nontrivial trip, so I'd probably want to be heading back by around 5:00 or so if I were to do it.

[Laura]

Best 26th birthday ever! I'm in

[SSOWorld]

Totally out - would have to be a trans-continental flight now.

[Janko Dialnice]

I was invited to get together a friend who I haven't seen in several years, on that particular weekend. He lives in Springfield, MA, and according to Google Maps, that is 3.5 hours under perfect conditions. That means that at best, I will be arriving at his place around 8:30 PM. Impossible for me.

[Takumi]

Out. If I'm going to any meet on the 29th, it's going to be a Prelude meet on the Outer Banks

[Dr Frankenstein]

Maybeeee for now. I'll have a three (and possibly four) day weekend but I tend to celebrate Canada Day in Ottawa...

[Dougtone]

I was hoping to make it to this meet, but one of my friends rescheduled his bachelor party to the same weekend, and I've decided to go to the bachelor party instead now that it's also been moved from Las Vegas to Boston.

[jpi]

Wish I could go guys but have to work that whole weekend and will be preping for my BIG road trip in July to New Mexico VIA St Louis, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and four corners.

[vdeane]

Just booked the hotels, so no backing out now.  Staying in Newburgh Friday night and near Trenton Saturday night.  Was thinking of driving back via NYC - how bad is traffic likely to be on a Sunday morning?

[dgolub]

Just booked the hotels, so no backing out now.  Staying in Newburgh Friday night and near Trenton Saturday night.  Was thinking of driving back via NYC - how bad is traffic likely to be on a Sunday morning?

Probably not too bad on a Sunday morning.  Just don't try it on a weekday morning.  Were you planning to go through Manhattan or just take some of the highways in the city?

[Alps]

Just booked the hotels, so no backing out now.  Staying in Newburgh Friday night and near Trenton Saturday night.  Was thinking of driving back via NYC - how bad is traffic likely to be on a Sunday morning?

Interested in the ballgame?

[vdeane]

Just booked the hotels, so no backing out now.  Staying in Newburgh Friday night and near Trenton Saturday night.  Was thinking of driving back via NYC - how bad is traffic likely to be on a Sunday morning?

Interested in the ballgame?

They're not really my thing; I'll probably explore some roads around Trenton since that's where my hotel for the night is.

Just booked the hotels, so no backing out now.  Staying in Newburgh Friday night and near Trenton Saturday night.  Was thinking of driving back via NYC - how bad is traffic likely to be on a Sunday morning?

Probably not too bad on a Sunday morning.  Just don't try it on a weekday morning.  Were you planning to go through Manhattan or just take some of the highways in the city?

Just interstates.  Thinking of possibly leaving at 9 AM on Sunday, or would 8 AM be better?

I have a link to the Sunday trip.  Hopefully NYC traffic won't be too bad that day.
http://goo.gl/maps/gJSaF

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[Duke87]

For the time being I would avoid driving any roads in The Bronx towards the GWB like the plague. With the current state of construction at the 87/95 interchange, expect to sit in traffic for an hour or more on the Cross Bronx westbound and for a good half hour at least on the Deegan northbound (or southbound, but that's not on your route). If you want to clinch the Cross Bronx, do it going east (won't be nearly as bad) and don't head back.

[hbelkins]

I drove the Cross Bronx westbound a few years ago on a Sunday morning (around 7 a.m.) and had no issues whatsoever.

[dgolub]

The Cross Bronx Expressway is generally a traffic disaster at any time of the day.  You can sometimes get lucky, but don't expect to ever make it down that highway without a traffic jam.  My father used to make trips from Long Island to Pennsylvania where he left at something like 5:00 AM and he went through Manhattan even at that hour to avoid it!

[Roadgeek Adam]

The Cross Bronx Expressway is generally a traffic disaster at any time of the day.  You can sometimes get lucky, but don't expect to ever make it down that highway without a traffic jam.  My father used to make trips from Long Island to Pennsylvania where he left at something like 5:00 AM and he went through Manhattan even at that hour to avoid it!

Saturday mornings are equally as nice. We've done it before, many times on Saturday morning.

[Alps]

The Cross Bronx Expressway is generally a traffic disaster at any time of the day.  You can sometimes get lucky, but don't expect to ever make it down that highway without a traffic jam.  My father used to make trips from Long Island to Pennsylvania where he left at something like 5:00 AM and he went through Manhattan even at that hour to avoid it!

I've made it through just fine at 11 PM westbound on a Sunday night.