Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Lots of pot holes and stalled cars. You never know if you are going to have a quick smooth ride for be stuck there forever. I am so glad I don’t have a daily commute that requires me to take the BQE everyday.
I do like the point where you are traveling along Brooklyn Heights and have a great view of the city. However it goes by quick and not recommended for enjoyment if you are the driver!
Some road paving would bump this up to 3 stars :)

The name tells you almost everything you need to know. This highway, also known as Interstate 278, connects Brooklyn and Queens. I 278 is actually a longer interstate than runs into New Jersey. The portion that runs thru BK and Queens is the BQE. It connects the Verrazano Bridge to the RFK Bridge. You can get to the Manhatten Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and Williamsburg Bridge via the BQE. It also connects to the Grand Central Parkway and the Belt Parkway.

The hour of the morning I’m on here there’s no traffic but I’m sure it’s a commuters nightmare later on. The roads are smooth and it’s a short cut to the Bridges and tunnels to Manhattan. The only thing is the 18 wheelers that fly right by you when you least expect it. Yes people speed on here in the early mornings and late at night so stay in the third lane of your scared.

The name says Brooklyn-​Queens expressway. An expressway! It’s worse than the local route. Seriously, my taxes go here?

This place has traffic all day everyday, ²⁴⁄₇. The traffic is a bit annoying, but it gives me time to take pictures of the lovely city scenery around me. The brooklyn queens expressway is an essential bridge to every place that one needs to get to, best part? It’s free! No tolls like the Staten Island bridge (I pay $ 16 just to be in devastating traffic!). Anyway, just avoid the potholes and wreck less city drivers here and you should be fine!

If you have hours to kill with no clear objective in mind and want to give a big F U to mother nature all the while boy oh boy is this the interstate for you. Enjoy your new albums as you toil away hours moving half a mile in twenty minutes. For a little more excitement ride up lanes you don’t belong in and cut people off on wider on ramps just to see if we can slow down the flow of traffic even further!!!

oh god… how i hate the BQE. do you remember that game with the little metal ball that you have to navigate through a labyrinth type maze? if you do then you know EXACTLY how it feels to drive down the BQE. Not that you are bumping into car the way you would with the walls, but it sure friggin feels that way. It is always a stop and go scenario (especially at the merge heading towards atlantic). There is no «good time» to hit the BQE. It is usually a mess no matter what time of day. when the hell are we gonna get the flying cars like the jetsons? or better yet someone needs to make an affordable rockateer thing so i could just fly everywhere and laugh down at the people stuck in traffic.

I spend way too much time not getting ready for the day!
Brooklyn driving is no different than any other sort of New York driving… However…for some reason… the drivers there tend to be a tad more aggressive… especially along the expressway… and along major streets… Then again you also have a TON of construction which causes delays on the BQE (Brooklyn-​Queens Expressway — from the Brooklyn Bridge to about the Gowanus Expressway).

«It never gets old, every time it’s just as good»
Paraphrasing friend who lives here as the car reached up the top of the Brooklyn-​Queens expressway around Brooklyn Heights and the concrete walls lining the road gave way to a nighttime view of the Manhattan skyline, it’s lights gleaming white against the dark blue sky. I was thrilled with this statement, because I sat silently in awe thinking how pretty it was but didn’t want to sound like a tourist. She spoke my thoughts for me.
I guess I’ll leave the judgement of Robert Moses to someone else, but I’m pretty sure New York wouldn’t be the same place it is today if he was able to carry out his vision and have turned Riverside drive, 125^th street and the heart of Greenwich Village into giant expressways. (Play along with me and call that an opinion and not a judgment.)
All that said, I appreciated being able to zip through Brooklyn on this expressway, and also being able take it out of LaGuardia. And the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was given in exchange for the freeway swooping through Brooklyn Heights, so that’s definitely something.
So I guess I’m glad there isn’t an expressway in Manhattan, but you really can’t knock the view from Brooklyn.

«…as good as it gets…» in reverse.
While it never ceases to amaze me that people actually check in while navigating the trauma filled, purgatory bound, tribulation that is the BeeKewEee, I must admit that this ride that I have experienced dozens of times offers some fine rewards.
Driving it early in the day, or late at night, feels like a kiddie car ride at Palisades Amusement Park. The ups and downs, the elevated rooftop ride in Brooklyn, followed by the tunnel-​like section along the East River; the sudden shifts and lane disappearances, all require quick reflexes and a derring-​do that separates New York drivers from the rest of the species.
The view of Manhattan is exceptional, but don’t get too distracted or you will run up someone’s tail, or find yourself in a pothole the size of the Grand Canyon. Stay focused or this could be your final gauntlet. The run along the Brooklyn Bridge offers a unique perspective, and unless you are in the left lane, you could be staring at its underbelly for quite a while.
Yes. The Brooklyn-​Queens Expressway is misnamed, but it is a marvel of early 20^th Century road engineering. Try to remember that the next time that black limo cuts you off and leaves your cursing the fates that brought you to this awesome/​awful piece of asphalt and steel.

Writing this «review» play-​by-​play.
Sitting in the car.
Traffic galore.
One scholl bus attempts to waggle it’s way in.
Over a min and no movements (a min in traffic is the equivalent of an hour in normal life)
Just moved for 6 secs now on pause again.
Automobiles are revving up all around.
Thanks Unilocal for this distraction. Shoot me now!
Oh finally here we go again! False alarm stop. *sighs*
*humming* THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
Takes out my cold Chinese food. Looks at it and puts it back *sighs*
Decides to switch over to Instagram. Maybe I’ll be back. Mabye not.
The End.

Worst ever! Slower than slow… sigh!
A three wheeling will pass by us faster in no time.
Avoid from 8am til 10am and 4pm til 10pm… maybe just avoid it at all cost. Don’t go near this expressway unless necessarily.

There is always traffic. It’s one of life’s few guarantees. There is always construction. It’s a daily surprise to find out what lanes and traffic patterns you will find during your commute on the BQE. When I had to commute through this way everyday, a 20 mile drive would take me over an hour. Sometimes more. I’m surprised the BQE didn’t leave me with an ulcer, or worse.

Chronically congested at most hours of the day. When its not backed up, there is always some *sshole that is so happy there is no traffic and speeds and ends up crashing and backs it up for the rest of us. Avoid if possible!

You’re just a number to most people. «278.» They can’t see your soul. The soul of lion. A champion. The way is express and it cuts like a knife through foie gras between the grand boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. I’m a Queensman. I can’t help it. It’s who I am. But Brooklyn knows the deal.
Many people look at this road with horror. Fearing what may happen. Traffic, delays or worse. That’s true. So too are beehives. They are full of stingers and terror. But there is also honey to be had. Honey to be drizzled along pieces of rye toast. Honey on my burger. Honey on my steak. Honey in my beer for good measure. Much like the mythical Christopher Robin I found a way to the honey. I’d brave the hive, battle the bees for one reason. To get a shot at that treasured honey.
You can stay home and never get stung. Buying up cheap substitutes. It ain’t honey. The BQE is the hive. Only way to the honey. I’ll take my chances any day.

Ah, the old BQE. 2 hours of my daily life. It’s a hate/​love relationship. You learn it quirks — ever-​changing lane patterns, time patterns; turn here, zoom here, blast the music and forget about the world…
I love it in the morning when you fly without traffic and see most amazing sunrise over Brooklyn, and I hate it at night when there are 4 accidents along the route, everyone seems to forget how to drive, but you still enjoy all the honking, bird-​flipping fun and on the end beating it all and finally getting home…

For the love of life avoid this highway if you can!
It took me way over 2 hours just on the BQE portion of the trip to get to Bay Ridge from Queens. OMG. I got a thousand grey hairs just being on this highway. Total time from Queens to Bay Ridge taking the BQE was about 3 hours! Really??? I’m still within the same city!!!

What can I say, you cant live with it and you cant live without it.
BQE.

Probably one of the worst highways known to man. There are just pot holes all over the road near the Metropolitan Ave and Meeker and Morgan exit. Although they re-​pave the road at least once a year, it gets busted up very quickly. There is always traffic on the Kosciuszko Bridge. This bridge has the slightest of the slightest curve and everyone has to brake like they’re doing a 90 degree turn. If there’s no traffic, I can get to Williamsburg from Forest Hills in 8 – 10 minutes. If there is traffic, it could take any where from an hour to two.
Verdict — New Yorkers simply can’t drive! As much crap New Yorkers talk about New Jersey people that can’t drive, New Yorkers are just as bad, if not worst! There is no need for the horn. It’s not gonna help the situation in bumper to bumper traffic.

Aka «BQE,» NOT BBQ!
Engineered by mogul Robert Moses to connect Queens and Brooklyn. It is a portion of Interstate 278. It sits in Brooklyn as trenches while in Queens as straight roads.
Warning: Brooklyn Queens Expressway is infamous for rush hour traffic congestion! Drivers will be sitting there, quite possibly, for hours.