Queens-Midtown Expressway - New York City (USA)
Queens–Midtown Expressway | Queens 03/05/2015 13h06
On our way to JFK our taxi driver made a kind of detour to avoid busy traffic due to Five Boro Bike Tour which was going on today.
Photo taken from the backseat of a Ford Transit Connect taxi and looking through the window pane forward on the Long Island Expressway (LIE). This part is called the Queens Midtown Expressway. Normally it is very busy and therefor the Long Island Expressway is locally known as "the world's longest parking lot".
Interstate 495 (New York)
Interstate 495 (I-495, also known as the LIE or simply the Expressway by locals) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. The route extends for 71 miles (114 km) from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 (CR 58) in Riverhead, Suffolk County. I-495 does not intersect its parent route, I-95. However, it does connect to I-95 through I-295, which it meets in Queens. The portion of I-495 in Nassau and Suffolk counties is known as the Long Island Expressway (LIE), a name commonly applied to the entirety of I-495. The section of the route from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Queens Boulevard is also named the Queens–Midtown Expressway west of Queens Boulevard, and the Horace Harding Expressway east of Queens Boulevard until the Queens-Nassau county line, though both names are not often used in common parlance and most signage refers only to the Long Island Expressway. The service roads of the expressway from the New York City line to Sills Road are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906A and New York State Route 906B.
Length: 114.30 km
Existed: 1958 – present
More information: Wikipedia = Interstate Hwy 495 (very detailed!) ]
Queens-Midtown Expressway - New York City (USA)
Queens–Midtown Expressway | Queens 03/05/2015 13h06
On our way to JFK our taxi driver made a kind of detour to avoid busy traffic due to Five Boro Bike Tour which was going on today.
Photo taken from the backseat of a Ford Transit Connect taxi and looking through the window pane forward on the Long Island Expressway (LIE). This part is called the Queens Midtown Expressway. Normally it is very busy and therefor the Long Island Expressway is locally known as "the world's longest parking lot".
Interstate 495 (New York)
Interstate 495 (I-495, also known as the LIE or simply the Expressway by locals) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. The route extends for 71 miles (114 km) from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 (CR 58) in Riverhead, Suffolk County. I-495 does not intersect its parent route, I-95. However, it does connect to I-95 through I-295, which it meets in Queens. The portion of I-495 in Nassau and Suffolk counties is known as the Long Island Expressway (LIE), a name commonly applied to the entirety of I-495. The section of the route from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Queens Boulevard is also named the Queens–Midtown Expressway west of Queens Boulevard, and the Horace Harding Expressway east of Queens Boulevard until the Queens-Nassau county line, though both names are not often used in common parlance and most signage refers only to the Long Island Expressway. The service roads of the expressway from the New York City line to Sills Road are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906A and New York State Route 906B.
Length: 114.30 km
Existed: 1958 – present
More information: Wikipedia = Interstate Hwy 495 (very detailed!) ]