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Bike route
Looking for a safe and direct bike route from NY to VA Beach. Any suggestions?
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I have posted my route from Philly to NY a few times; a Goggle search should
bring them up. Most are on my web pages also. A novel route is the ferry to Sandy Hook NJ, find Rt 537, follow that to Maple Shade NJ. I have several cue from Cheltenham PA to Cape may and Wildwood that goes through Maple Shade NJ. Use the Cape May to Cape Henlopen ferry, Lewes DE. Use US 9 to US 13. There are two route to use into Virginia, One is to use the Crisfield to Tangier Island Ferry and then the Tangier Island to Virginia ferry. This requires timing information to make the connection, one of my web pages has the schedule that I used http://www.billcotton.com/bike.htm The other way is to use the Bridge tunnel. A call to the bridge commission may get you a shuttle, otherwise a friendly trucker and a offer to pay the toll should get you across. Instead of the Cape May ferry, The East Coast Greenway route to Delaware. http://www.greenway.org/ will get you to Delaware then you can use Delaware Bicycle Route 1. The route is signed but some signed are missing, however a cue is here http://www.billcotton.com/delaware1.htm A longer route is from Adventure cycle http://www.adventurecycling.org/ -- www.billcotton.com N40° 3.744' W75° 6.180' "Frank" wrote in message om... Looking for a safe and direct bike route from NY to VA Beach. Any suggestions? |
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I crossed the George Washington bridge at the end of a day's riding (from
Norwich CT.), and stayed at a Best Western in Ft. Lee, NJ. At first light the next morning (about 5:00 a.m.), I went to Rte 46 and took it to Hackettstown, then 57 to Easton PA, and 611 all the way to Center City Philadelphia. 46 is not for the faint of heart. Fortunately, I was through the busiest areas before traffic really picked up. For the most part there were good shoulder areas to ride on, but with a few harrowing situations, such as two left turns where you had to cross 2 busy traffic lanes to get to the left turn lane, and one merge, where two busy lanes of traffic are merging from the right. The only safe way to handle those is to be patient, wait for a break in the traffic and run across the lanes. As you go further west , you also hit some pretty good hills. 57 is a much easier ride. At the Del. River bridge, the police shooed me off the traffic lanes onto the pedestrian path. PA 611 was good news bad news, at first, there was light traffic and flat valley roads but narrow lanes. Later the shoulder widened, but was not well maintained; the pavement was very substandard. Traffic picked up after Doylestown. In the Phil. suburbs, there were a few places where there was barely room for the two lanes of traffic; occasional strtegic retreats to the sidewalk were in order. The last 8 miles into Center City were good riding; plenty of lanes, less traffic, and lots of green lights on Broad street. Total travel: 136 miles I have no basis for comparing this to any other route, as I'm from WI and not otherwise familiar with the area. I seriously considered a route through Staten Island and then west, but my information was that the bridge at the south end of Staten Island wasn't available to bicyclists. "Bill Cotton" wrote in message ... I have posted my route from Philly to NY a few times; a Goggle search should bring them up. Most are on my web pages also. A novel route is the ferry to Sandy Hook NJ, find Rt 537, follow that to Maple Shade NJ. I have several cue from Cheltenham PA to Cape may and Wildwood that goes through Maple Shade NJ. Use the Cape May to Cape Henlopen ferry, Lewes DE. Use US 9 to US 13. There are two route to use into Virginia, One is to use the Crisfield to Tangier Island Ferry and then the Tangier Island to Virginia ferry. This requires timing information to make the connection, one of my web pages has the schedule that I used http://www.billcotton.com/bike.htm The other way is to use the Bridge tunnel. A call to the bridge commission may get you a shuttle, otherwise a friendly trucker and a offer to pay the toll should get you across. Instead of the Cape May ferry, The East Coast Greenway route to Delaware. http://www.greenway.org/ will get you to Delaware then you can use Delaware Bicycle Route 1. The route is signed but some signed are missing, however a cue is here http://www.billcotton.com/delaware1.htm A longer route is from Adventure cycle http://www.adventurecycling.org/ -- www.billcotton.com N40° 3.744' W75° 6.180' "Frank" wrote in message om... Looking for a safe and direct bike route from NY to VA Beach. Any suggestions? |
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