I've new respect...

[Innkeeper]

At one point in an otherwise dull life, I taught AFROTC at the former University Heights campus of New York University. We lived at Ft Totten in Bayside Queens. It was practically under and inside the approaches to the Throgs Neck Bridge. Therefore I had to get on the Bell Parkway to the Whitestone Bridge. Up to the Bruckner Traffic Circle (which was under contruction the whole three years, and still is), across the Cross Bronx Experssway, and then up the Major Degan Expresway a mile or two the campus. It was eleven miles. In the morning it took an average of 55 minutes, and in the evening it took and average of 1 hr, 10 minutes. On Friday of a three day weekend it took 2 hrs and 15 minutes. That was thirty five years ago, and things are much worse now.