Howard Lutnick<\/strong> hosted the Bridgehampton event<\/a>, which contributed to never-ending traffic from Riverhead to Amagansett that lasted late into the night, with reports of five-plus-hour journeys in from JFK and the city and even the backroads and residential streets being full of cars.<\/p>\n\u201cI just never saw anything like it,\u201d said Alison P.,<\/strong> who works at a Bridgehampton salon and asked that her last name not be used. \u201cI hope there\u2019s some kind of investigation. This was dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\nThat\u2019s because vehicles on main roads, side streets, highways, and everything in between were essentially parked at a dead stop, or inching toward a destination, for hours and hours.<\/p>\n
When President Joe Biden<\/strong> visited the Hamptons in late June, his plane landed at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton. But Biden then took Marine One to East Hampton Airport, a short ride from where his fundraiser took place. However, while Trump landed in Westhampton too\u2014at approximately 5:30 p.m.\u2014his motorcade took him the 25-ish miles to Bridgehampton, where he arrived about an hour later.<\/p>\n\u201cThere was road rage and the big trucks driving on the wrong side of the road. It was a little scary,\u201d Alison said. Still, as her usual 20-minute commute home turned into a nearly hour-and-a-half-long trip, she did the same, navigating her way on the shoulder of the opposite side of the road until she was close enough to ditch her car in a cul-de-sac and walk the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Riva Gruen<\/strong> and her husband left their Southampton Airbnb on Friday night for a 6 p.m. dinner reservation at nearby restaurant Cowfish. The map predicted a 10-minute drive, but they ended up arriving at 6:30 p.m. due to traffic. And after the couple had finished their dinner, they were faced with even worse congestion: Cars were just stopped, and there were no signs explaining the road closures, which subsequently left them with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was just crazy,\u201d Gruen said. \u201cPeople were doing U-turns all over the place, thinking they could get around and go some other way\u2014and there was literally no way to get through.\u201d After trying \u201cover and over\u201d to get anywhere, they eventually asked a cop about the status. He directed them to a local dive bar, where they sat for some time, though they ultimately waited in the car for an hour in heavy rain after getting tired of the bar. They finally got home about two hours after finishing eating.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m someone who does not like being stuck places. That\u2019s a trigger point for me. Like, not moving, you can\u2019t go anywhere\u2014I don\u2019t like that,\u201d she said. Being Democrats, she added, made it all feel worse.<\/p>\n
Others were excited about the ex-president\u2019s visit. Trump fans lined the streets near the airport and surrounding area to cheer for the Republican presidential nominee as he came and went.<\/p>\n
Some made plans to get errands done in the morning and then hunker down in order to avoid the Trump-fundraiser-induced traffic. One man who was walking his dog in the Village of East Hampton after the hoopla had died down said he wished he had known ahead of time that Trump was coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have done a sign that said \u2018Fuck Trump\u2019 and [stood] on the side of the road and proudly displayed that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Town of Southampton Police Department, whose jurisdiction is the area through which Trump traveled, issued an advisory ahead of Friday\u2019s visit, warning of \u201cextensive rolling road closures and heavy gridlock.\u201d Signs were posted on roadways as well, but for security reasons, Trump\u2019s travel details couldn\u2019t be shared ahead of time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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