Reviewed by: Steve Anderson
Last Traveled: 2004

SAFETY
CONGESTION
PAVEMENT CONDITION     
CLARITY OF SIGNING         
AESTHETICS                       

4
2
6
6
4

The Van Wyck Expressway is not really all that pleasurable to sit through a cab ride (to JFK Airport), let alone a drive. The NYSDOT made a number of improvements to the pavement and entrance/exit ramps during the 1999-2003 reconstruction (done in conjunction with the Port Authority's Airtrain project) along the expressway's southerly stretches. The project has resulted in a smoother ride. Unfortunately, it does not look like the project did anything to relieve the monumental congestion on the Van Wyck, and it looks like the Airtrain is turning out to be the "white elephant" that it was predicted to be because it does not provide a one-seat ride to Manhattan.

North of the "Kew Gardens interchange," the congestion on the Van Wyck Expressway thins out a little bit, but the pavement is terrible, and the roadway floods frequently.

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