PSA avoid LGA at all costs
fly fairly frequently for work.
until they started construction had LGA down to a science knew exactly where to park by B on 4th level walk across the walkway through the entrance right to escalators through security maybe 5-10 min until gate whole ordeal.
Have been avoiding LGA for last few months, yesterday had no choice due to flight options had to fly.
first mistake was overslept half hour, ok no biggee usually have about a half hour to kill once in airport. HOLY COW lga is a mess. couldnt find the daily lot, very poorly marked. finally figured out have to park by C. found a spot in that lot fairly easily. then time to wait for purple shuttle. after about 10 min one shows up proceeds to leave airport to go to rental car area then absolute gridlock getting past the GCP service road 15 minutes not moving an inch. at this point boarding for my flight had started already. shuttle driver refused to let anyone off the bus. after repeatedly begging he relented. ran the distance to airport took about 10 min to get to terminal thank god for precheck made it to door of gate 7:01 doors closed 7:05. upon landing back in LGA shuttles only come to departures. but this is not marked anywhere after waiting with a group of people for 15 minutes i asked one of the traffic "cops" where to get the shuttle and he said to go upstairs to departures. shuttle came fairly quickly at that point. when i got back to C, didnt realize they eliminated the daily lot prices which until now costed $32/34? (i forget get confused with JFK which one is which) the price for the day is $59 took about 35 minutes from getting into the vehicle until got onto GCP due to fact they have only one lane open....
All in all worst experience ever with any of the 3 majors around NY (jfk, ewr, lga) I do not understand how the MTA plans on handling the millions of travelers who go through LGA every year, this is going to take multiple years until the construction is complete, it is mind numbing to try and describe what i experienced yesterday.
sorry for the rant but hopefully this helps someone....