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Updates & alternate transit options

Compiled by NYNewsday.com

The contingency plans New York City has set up in the event of a transit strike fall in four major categories:
-Taxis
-Carpooling
-Driving Restrictions

-Pedestrians/Bicycles.

The regulations are only in effect Monday-Friday, with the most stringent rules in effect from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Carpooling
Under high occupancy vehicle restrictions, between 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. all cars entering Manhattan below 96th Street must have four or more passengers.

The same rules apply to most bridges coming into the city:
-Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
-Brooklyn Bridge
-Holland Tunnel
-Henry Hudson Bridge
-Lincoln Tunnel
-Manhattan Bridge
-Queensboro/ 59th Street Bridge
-Queens-Midtown Tunnel
-Williamsburg Bridge

The rules also apply to vehicles on segments of major expressways feeding into Manhattan:
-Belt Parkway, from 4th Avenue to Gowanus Expressway merge at 60th Street

Related topic galleries: Central Park, Transportation, Tourism and Leisure, Long Island, Henry Hudson, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Triborough Bridge

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