- --- On Fri, 5/30/08, Njricky2_@_aol.com <Njricky2@aol.com> wrote:
> Definitely a positive move. I went up to my house in Scranton for
> the long weekend via Martz, which is now just a commuter run from
> NYC. The bus drivers seem to know that the traffic backs up at the
> Delaware River so they now leave the 80 Freeway and cross at Portland
> PA, then take the two-lane road through DWG to Stroudsburg and then
> to Scranton on the 380 via Mt. Pocono.
That 2-lane road is PA 611, formerly US 611. I-80 ALWAYS backs up at peak times, and the bypass is well known to anyone who can read a map. It also offers the opportunity to fill up in NJ...
> I thought this was nuts until looking from the PA side where I saw the
> backup on the 80.
Commonly two to three miles, but sometimes all the way east to the DLW bridge. If you pass exit 4 and 80 dies at the bridge, there is one last exit that lets you go back to the bridge to Portland.
We returned from Cincinnati last Monday. We hit two traffic problems. One was a three-mile backup in central PA caused by a tractor-trailer breakdown. It had just been removed when we passed it. The other was coming down from the Poconos; we slowed to about 10 mph just east of the I-380 merge. I got off at Tannersville and took US 611 for a few miles and reentered when I saw traffic moving well. That lasted to Stroudsburg, so I got off and took 611 to Portland. It works both ways...
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