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' The City S car-pool requirements at a half-dozen Traffic within Manhattan also last two weeks, it has taken him they became even more packed bridge and tunnel crossings has worked well and was lighter — another goal of up to two hours to get to the at Newark Penn Station, the last will remain in effect, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday, the car-pooling plan. J Brooklyn Bridge. Yesterday, he stop before Manhattan. At Shea Stadium, where 4,000 « .open, co Me. ..e. parking spots were available for those intending to switch to the . More travelers seem to be pose sweeping safety checks of ondAve. andE. 53rdSt. Hiscom- qJ Montclair, subway or pick heeding officials’ warnings that vehicles entering New York. mute took just 33 niinutes.’• - ’ joined- forces N.J., up car-poolers, ■^drivers without passengers “The city should consider con- "Wednesday was so bad, 1 with several co- “I don ’t have about one in five Would be turned away between tinning the ban while we are in a turned around and wet t back people got on . 6 a.m. and noon, prompting state of emergency, there are se- home.” workers at a mid­ anyone to car No. 7 trains. town Manhattan , sottie to switch to mass transit curity checkpoints and signifi- Deliveryman Bernard Lopez, The parking d—“which also might have been cant parts of the transportation 51, of Clifton, N.J., said it took accounting firm pool with. It’s lot, free Thurs­ and car-pooled. day and yester­ why it worked,” Giuliani said. Manhattan-bound system are out of service,” said drivers lie Sander, a former city trans- him just 10 minutes to ^o from 30th to Houston Sts. ' Their commute began in DiPi- ridiculous. I’m day, will cost $2 won’t have to worry about the portation commissioner who is “There’s no question about it etro’s driveway. Just trying to per car starting car pool restrictions today or to- director of the Rudin Center for — traffic is lighter. It has made From there, he Monday. morrow — they don’t resume till Transportation Policy and Man- for an easy day,” he said! traveled to get to work.” Leonard Fig, 57, who worte Monday. agement at New York Universi- By 9 a.m. yesterday, police at Belleville, N.J., The anti-gridlock plan had a ty- the approach to the Brooklyn and picked up STEPHANIE HUNTE for an insurance company, noticeable impact on traffic vol- Easing delays Bridge had turned away 20 or so Sara Wygle at her parked at Shea ume yesterday; 11,000 Manhat- Police said most motorists solo drivers. By 10 a.m,, about home, as well as Nora Blum, and headed to the subwav “I’m tan-bound vehicles passed complied yesterday with the pro- 80 solo drivers were turned who drove from her house in u^nnv tn dn it ” hP snid “Tho through the Lincoln Tunnel be- hibition against driving solo, away from the Lincoln Tunnel, West Orange, N.J. PW ’ ® tween 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., down which went into effect Thursday the Port Authority said. ] “We came in together, and we from 19,000 on an average Fri- morning at five crossings and ex- “Most people are complying,” might keep doing it,” said DiPi- we an nave to ne goon citizens day in September, according to panded to a sixth yesterday. said a police officer at the Sands etro, who was idling in his Jeep participate. the Port Authority. . Delays at the affected cross- St. approach to the Brooklyn Cherokee in Union City, N.J., ap- some were disgruntled. But Monday could be the big- Ings — the the Queensboro, Will- Bridge. "They know what to do.” proaching the Lincoln Tunnel. “I don’t have anyone to car gest test to date of the car-pool- lamsburg, Manhattan and Cabbie Gary Garcia, 5p, head- "It took some planning, but it pool with,” complained ing ban, officials said, because Brooklyn bridges and the Lin- ing into Manhattan froirt Brook- worked out,” he said. Stephanie Hunte, 28, of East an increasing number of work- coin and Midtown tunnels — lyn, was ecstatic at the small “The worst part i.s agreeing on Flatbush, Brooklyn, who was ers are returning to their offices, were at or near normal levels number of cars ahead of him. a radio station,” Wygle added. turned back at the Brooklyn lithe Jewish holidays have ended seen before Sept. 11, according “It’s excellent," he said. “It’s Conductors on trains from Bridge. "It’s ridiculous. I’m just and authoritie.s continue to im- to Jonathan Kaplan, executive going to be a great day. For a Trenton estimated yesterday trying to get to work.”

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