fastest route to BQE?

For those with cars: I'm looking for the fastest way to get on the BQE westbound from PH. I'm heading out to LI and I've grown fed up with the lights on Eastern Parkway. Is it just taking Flatbush avenue all the way up? There must be a better way! Who can tell me the better way?

Subject: Re: fastest route to BQE?

teddyballgame wrote: For those with cars: I'm looking for the fastest way to get on the BQE westbound from PH. I'm heading out to LI and I've grown fed up with the lights on Eastern Parkway. Is it just taking Flatbush avenue all the way up? There must be a better way! Who can tell me the better way?

well, there's the entrance off the williamsburg bridge, but I don't know if you can get on that without having been ON the bridge. The closest as far as I know is off Flatbush--but there's also one I've never found near Flushing Ave. in Bed-Stuy.

g'luck. i hate getting on the BQE so bad....

West-bound out to LI? :shock:

I usually take Classon north and follow the signs to the entrance ramp.

WhyFi wrote: West-bound out to LI? :shock:

I usually take Classon north and follow the signs to the entrance ramp.

oh. that must be the Flushing entrance. crap, so much easier. last time I ended up all the way in friggin Greenpoint....

muteflute wrote: oh. that must be the Flushing entrance. crap, so much easier. last time I ended up all the way in friggin Greenpoint....

It's pretty fast/easy. When my wife flies in to LGA, I can usually get to the pick-up area about the same time as she does (carry-on only!), if I leave when they're pullin' in to the gate... <20 min, I guess.

whoops, i meant eastbound, good call

Take Classon all the way down, make a right, then a left at the second light then a right. That is the way that I go and I think it is the quickest.

yo,

google map linky

totally agree w choice of entrance - Kent/Wythe, I think it's called - but think Classon crawls a bit. Try Vanderbilt to Flushing, then left on Classon. Probably saves a few minutes.

Flatbush and a left on Tillary is probably the fastest before 7am and after 11am. Otherwise, take Atlantic to Bedford Ave and make a left. After the Fulton street light you should hit greens all the way down to the overpass/service rd of the BQE. Make a left on the BQE overpass/service rd and go down one block, then make another immediate left back on the service rd and you will see the entrance to the BQE about 50 ft ahead of you.

Idlewild wrote: Flatbush and a left on Tillary is probably the fastest before 7am and after 11am. Otherwise, take Atlantic to Bedford Ave and make a left. After the Fulton street light you should hit greens all the way down to the overpass/service rd of the BQE. Make a left on the BQE overpass/service rd and go down one block, then make another immediate left back on the service rd and you will see the entrance to the BQE about 50 ft ahead of you.

I totally agree with the Flatbush route when theres no traffic.
Im looking at a map and I'll try your bedford route next time I haveto trek out to the 'rents.

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Vanderbilt left to Myrtle right to Prince right to Tillary immediate merge to BQE?

metulj wrote: Vanderbilt left to Myrtle right to Prince right to Tillary immediate merge to BQE?

It depends when. Once you pass Atlantic and Vanderbilt during rush hour you're at the mercy of the two lane traffic. Then you have to deal with the bottleneck on Myrtle. I do take Prince from Flatbush once in awhile though.

Btw, with the Bedford Ave route. Sometimes on Fridays and Saturdays and definately on Sundays there can be a bottleneck between park Ave and the BQE service rd from the Satmars leaving temple (shabbat) or the Satmars double parking on the free day (Sunday). During the summer though you can expect school buses clogging up the same intersection from picking up kids that go to day camp in upstate NY. The bottlenecks are relatively short.