Suggestion: Have her meet you at 100th street, W. side (you re already uptown), then take the George. No having to drive downtown fighting traffic. 80W begins a few feet from the George.That traffic getting to, and near the Linc. will probably be brutal, no matter what time (especially with every carrier bus you can name coming out of Port Auth., and trucks). It s the biggest travel day of the year. If you go through the Linc., you ll deal with 3W (relatively short), then 46W, then the 46-23-80 Junction-tricky navagation if you ve never done it before-you have to really pay attention to the overhead signs and get in the correct lane, otherwise you could end up on the wrong route. From the George, it s straight out to 80W. Be careful around Paterson if you re going that far. Lots of merging and exiting.Happy Turkey Day!
I would suggest telling the passenger to either wait in Times Square or meet the car somewhere near the tunnel. You can pick up the passenger near the tunnel, go through it and once in New Jersey, just take 3 west until you meet up with 80. It really doesn t pay for the car to come all the way down from 100 street then turn around and go back up to the bridge. One o clock should be early enough to beat the rush coming out of the city. Good luck and have a nice holiday.