Garden State Parkway Crash South of Exit 137 in Cranford: Two Left Lanes of Five Closed on the Northbound Side Sunday Evening
The Parkway's Sunday-evening pinch point is in Union County, where a crash south of the NJ 28 exit has the two left northbound lanes closed. The rest of the 511NJ board is delays, not closures — Clifton and Jersey City, all lanes open.
Northbound drivers on the Garden State Parkway have one genuine obstacle on Sunday evening's board, and it is in Cranford. A crash on the Parkway northbound south of Exit 137 — the NJ 28 interchange in Cranford Township — has two left lanes of five closed, according to the 511NJ-sourced incident listing read by this desk. With three lanes carrying the Sunday-night flow past the scene, backups build from the left side; drivers who can move right early, or take NJ 28 and local routes through Cranford and Westfield, will do better than drivers who meet the closure at the cones.
Nothing else on the evening board is a closure. The 511NJ active-events feed carried delays on NJ 21 northbound in Clifton between Ackerman Avenue and US 46 with all lanes open, delays on NJ 139 Lower eastbound in Jersey City from Tonnelle Avenue to Jersey Avenue, and delays on US 1&9/Tonnelle Avenue northbound in Jersey City — the Holland Tunnel approach pattern on a Sunday night, slow rather than stopped.
No clearance time for the Cranford crash has been published on the listing, and this desk does not invent one: the two-lane closure stands as reported until 511NJ clears the event. Monday's commute has its own separate file — the Portal North Bridge cutover diversions resume with the morning rush (SQ-20261101-052) — but for Sunday night, the Parkway at Cranford is the drive to plan around.
