Slow ride home despite LIRR restart

As of 6 p.m., traffic on the eastbound Long Island Expressway began to slow near Long Island City and remained glacial through Queens, according to the New York State Department of Transportation’s traffic monitoring website 511ny.org. Rush hour westbound traffic appeared predictably jammed, while traffic in either direction appeared to bottleneck near Lake Success, Old Westbury and Woodbury.

Pockets of dense traffic in either direction blotted the Southern State Parkway from Valley Steam to the west to West Babylon in the east. Eastbound jams along the Grand Central Parkway stretched east into Nassau County on the Northern State Parkway.

All branches of the LIRR are on or close to schedule.