Sunday Afternoon Traffic in New Jersey: A Disabled Vehicle Blocks a Lane on the Turnpike's Pennsylvania Extension, and Delays Build in Clifton and Jersey City

The afternoon's only blocked lane in the state's feed is on the New Jersey Turnpike's Pennsylvania Extension, where a disabled vehicle eastbound, east of the Delaware River Bridge in Burlington Township, has the left lane blocked, according to the Turnpike Authority item in the 511NJ active-events feed read by this desk. Drivers crossing from Pennsylvania should expect the squeeze at the bridge's New Jersey end; the feed lists no other lane blockage on the Turnpike system, and the Turnpike mainline incidents check read this cycle reports no accidents found.

The delay list is longer than the blockage list. In Clifton, Route 21 northbound is delayed from north of Ackerman Avenue to US 46, with all lanes open. In Jersey City, the NJ 139 Lower level eastbound is delayed from Tonnelle Avenue to Jersey Avenue, and US 1&9/Tonnelle Avenue northbound is delayed from the 139 Lower level to Manhattan Avenue - the approaches drivers use toward the Holland Tunnel side of the city on a Sunday when marathon crossings are already reshaping the afternoon, as this desk's earlier files have covered.

Three work zones round out the board, all of them standing items rather than new incidents: construction on the Garden State Parkway southbound exit ramp at Exit 154 for US 46 in Clifton; construction on the Turnpike's Hudson County Extension westbound, west of Interchange 14C; and NJDOT roadwork on I-287 northbound between the Turnpike interchange in Edison and just south of Exit 5, Stelton Road, in South Plainfield. None of the three is listed with a full closure. The desk will re-check the feed in the next cycle, ahead of the Jets crowd leaving MetLife and the evening drive.