My D is driving from the Boston area to NJ (Monmouth County/Garden State Pwy) on Tuesday. She is taking two passengers who need to get into NYC. She does not want to drive into NYC and wants to drop her passengers off at a Metro North station on her route (I90/I84/I684/I287(Tappan Zee)/GSP). Someone we know suggested Golden’s Bridge as a convenient station on the route. Any other suggestions from people experienced in the ways of Metro North commuting? She wants to avoid I95 and the GWB.
For 684, that is the best option. You could also do Tarrytown, which is right by the Tappanzee.
Thanks!
If she is going from Boston, Tarrytown is past the routes (287/GSP/Palisades Parkway) you take into NJ (assuming she is taking 84.) Golden’s Bridge is first exit off 84 (Brewster/White Plains) on 684. You can see the train station from 684.
The Palisades brings her down to the GWB and she wants to avoid that mess. Golden’s Bridge seems like the best option so far. On 287 she wants to continue past the Palisades Mall and go directly south on the GSP around Nyack.
95 is the best route on paper but it will be a parking lot on Tues/Wed.
I wasn’t suggesting what route for her to take to NJ, only that the routes into NJ are north of the Tappenzee Bridge/Tarrytown and she would be going out of her way.
Thanks. I appreciate all advice
She could come down 684 and drop people off at Greenwich or Portchester then take 287 across Tappan Zee.
You can see goldens bridge from 684 at Rt 138. I think that is easiest on and off.
IIRC, 684 isn’t anywhere near the Greenwich train station, which is downton. I’d go with the other suggestions.
Port Chester is convenient for 95 and 287, but not for 684. I think Golden’s Bridge sounds like a better bet.
End of 684 hits 287, 95 is only few miles from 287 E. I drive that route almost weekly.
BTW - I am not sure 84 is going to be better than 95 or the Merritt. I stopped using 84 when they started all that construction.
Have your kid use a GPS (on smartphone if she doesn’t have one on her car) to find the best route.
Agree re: Goldens Bridge. I do that drive a lot and that was my first thought. Right next to the highway.
Yep, another local resident checks in and says “Goldens Bridge” Metro-North station. I do that drive from Boston to the NYC northern 'burbs and that would seem to be the perfect solution for your daughter. Trains from Goldens Bridge to Grand Central will depart about every half hour.
Another vote for Golden’s Bridge. Exit at 8 South, GPS will direct her),frequent train service, train takes about an hour to NYC. She will hit very heavy traffic heading westbound over the TPZ bridge.
I drive 84 (the stretch between 684 and 87) all the time and it’s fine. However, I asked my cousin a few weeks ago when we were all in CT, if she was taking 84 home from where we were (Milford - taking rt 8 north to Waterbury to get 84) and she said they never take that as they don’t like the stretch from Hartford to Waterbury. S takes it from Boston to Hartford and then 91 to Merritt, but he hasn’t done that on a holiday weekend yet.
We were on 95 the same weekend, not a holiday weekend, from Milford to Norwalk and 95 was a parking lot so we got off and onto Merritt in Saugatuck and Merritt was a parking lot, too. We ended up getting off the next exit and taking back roads to my sisters.
95 stinks most of the time, I have driven it over the years a lot, and it seems never to have good traffic on it. I agree with the Golden’s Bridge station, I have taken that myself, an uncle had a house close by that my aunt used to commute from there from, and it is easy access via the service road of off 684, and you can get right back on. You could try and drop the at the White Plains station, but it doesn’t save all that much time for them and is less hassle.
Thanks to all for your suggestions. It looks like Golden’s Bridge is it.
I think it is true that the stretch of 84 from Hartford to Waterbury is more prone to seemingly random traffic jams than the upper portion.
I drive from Maine to Wilton, CT every couple of months. I try to drive between 10 AM and 4PM if at all possible. I never drive on 95 in CT. 
I use 95 in ME/NH, 495 to the Mass Pike, 84 from there to Hartford, and then 91 to 15 (the Wilbur Cross/Merritt). Sometimes, but rarely, I stay on 84 and then come down Rte 7.