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| This holiday season don't let gridlock leave you out in the cold. Download the Gridlock Alert Day Calendar, and take mass transit on Gridlock Alert Days and whenever else possible. Download the full Holiday Traffic Mitigation Plan to learn more about special traffic changes, holiday ferry schedules, transit promotions and more. Special guidelines are in affect for construction and motor coaches. Below is a guide for the general public to transportation options to keep you moving quickly and safely. Regional Transportation Partners
Transit Planners Ferries Rideshare Carpool and HOV Lanes NYC Bicycle Map Other Resources
Trips 1-2-3
Traffic and transit information for the NYC Metropolitan area. Plan a transit trip from Weehawken to Wall Street to Westport all on one site. www.trips123.com MTA Trip Planner
Plan trips in the city as well as throughout the region using MTA and the power of Google Maps. Plan your point-to-point trip using one or more of the MTA Agencies: NYC Transit, LIRR, LI Bus, Metro-North, or MTA Bus.http://tripplanner.mta.info/ Hopstop
Subway and bus directions for New York City.www.hopstop.com/?city=newyork Staten Island Ferry
Free service between the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island and the Whitehall Ferry Terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan. The ferry is in its 102nd year of operation as a municipal service.www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/statfery.shtml#info Seastreak
Service from Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to Pier 11 (Wall and South Streets) and East 34th Street. www.seastreak.com 1-800-BOATRIDE Liberty Water Taxi
Service from Liberty Landing Marina in Liberty State Park to the World Financial Center in Battery Park City.www.libertylandingmarina.com (201) 985-8000 New York Waterway/ BillyBey Ferry Co., LLC
Service on the following routes:
www.nywaterway.com (800) 53-FERRY New York Water Taxi
East River service from Hunter's Point (Queens) to East 34th Street (Manhattan), the Schaeffer Landing (Brooklyn), Fulton Landing (Brooklyn) and to Wall Street/Pier 11. A separate route travels between the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Wall Street/Pier 11. There is also a separate ;route from Haverstraw in Rockland County to Yonkers, to the World Financial Center, and to Pier 11.www.nywatertaxi.com (212)742-1969 Save money, fight congestion and help the environment. These ridesharing services can help you find someone to share an occasional trip with or commute with every day. CommuterLink
Offers a broad range of free services to businesses and commuters in the five boroughs, including an online ridematching service for carpoolers and mass transit itineraries.www.commuterlink.com GoLoco
A service that helps people and communities create their own personal public transportation network. GoLoco is a Facebook application and uses your own social network to allow you to rideshare with friends and colleagues.www.goloco.org/index NuRide
The nation's first ride network that rewards people for sharing rides.http://www.nuride.com If you do share a ride you can take advantage of the many HOV lanes that will help you get into and out of Manhattan more quickly. Manhattan Bridge HOV 2+ Lane
Between the hours of 6:00 am and 10:00 am Monday to Friday, cars with two or more people and buses may use the HOV lane to Manhattan (left lane of the inbound upper roadway). They may access the lane from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) eastbound Exit 29A or from Flatbush Avenue (follow signs) or from the BQE westbound Exit 29, then turn right onto Gold Street or proceed straight onto Flatbush Avenue.See the access map. In Manhattan the left turn from the upper roadway onto Canal Street at Chrystie Street is prohibited from 5:00 am to 3:00 pm Monday to Friday. Vehicles utilizing the HOV lane will have access to Chrystie Street northbound and Canal Street eastbound. Long Island Expressway HOV Lane Into Queens-Midtown Tunnel Open to All Vehicles With Three or More Passengers
The existing bus and taxi high occupancy vehicle lane (HOV) into the Queens-Midtown Tunnel is open for any motorists who have three or more persons in their vehicle (HOV 3+). The hours of operation are 7 am to 10 am on the westbound LIE from Calvary Cemetery to the tunnel.
Motorcycle riders are allowed to use HOV lanes.
Brooklyn Battery TunnelHOV-3 Lane on Gowanus Expressway
The HOV lane on the Gowanus Expressway leading to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is open to vehicles with three or more passengers, buses, emergency vehicles, and taxis and for-hire vehicles with at least one passenger. Vehicles using the HOV lane must have E-Z Pass.
The HOV-3 lane runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and is in effect Manhattan-bound only from 6 am to 10 am on weekdays. Vehicles with fewer than three people are not be permitted in the HOV lane but other vehicles will be able to access the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel via the regular lanes of the Gowanus Expressway.
Queensboro Bridge Manhattan-Bound HOV Lane
The South Upper Roadway of the Queensboro Bridge accommodates the Manhattan-bound high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane containing two or more people from 6 am to 10 am, Monday to Friday. Access is to East 58th Street/East 57th Street in Manhattan from Thomson Avenue or 21st Street at 43rd Avenue in Queens.
Motorcycle riders are allowed to use HOV lanes.
This year the NYC DOT has added over 40 new lane miles of bicycle facilities and hundreds of new bicycle racks, making bicycling a healthy, smart and now more convenient choice.
 Download the map here front and back (pdf) or call 311 for a free copy.
Outside New York City, call 212-NEWYORK (639-9675). Also check your favorite bike shop or your local library for free NYC Cycling Maps.
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