Sunday Evening Traffic in New Jersey: A Crash Blocks a Lane on the Turnpike's Western Spur in Newark, and Debris Slows the Parkway in Wall
The two freshest items on the 511NJ board heading into Sunday evening are a Western Spur crash north of Interchange 15E and debris taking two center lanes of the Parkway in Wall Township — plus the usual Fort Lee-to-the-bridge and Holland Tunnel delays.
Sunday's drive home has two incidents at the top of the board. On the New Jersey Turnpike's Western Spur northbound, north of Interchange 15E (US 1&9) in Newark, a crash reported at 1:54 p.m. ET has one left lane of three blocked, according to the 511NJ active-events feed read by this desk. And on the Garden State Parkway southbound, north of Exit 98 (NJ 138) in Wall Township, debris reported at 1:46 p.m. has two center lanes of five blocked — the kind of report that slows a whole direction out of proportion to its size.
Around the Hudson crossings, the pattern is volume rather than metal. Delays are posted on US 1&9 northbound from north of Bergen Boulevard in Fort Lee up to the George Washington Bridge, with all lanes open, and the Port Authority is reporting delays in both Holland Tunnel tubes, again with all lanes open. On the Parkway northbound, delays run from south of Exit 143 (NJ 124) in Irvington to north of Exit 144 (CR 510) in Newark, with a further slow patch around Exit 151 in Bloomfield; southbound, the Exit 130 ramps in Woodbridge are carrying about a half-mile of volume delay.
Nothing in the feed's reports on these incidents includes injury information, and this desk reports none. Lane counts and blockages are stated exactly as the Turnpike Authority, NJDOT and Port Authority reports state them; incident boards change by the minute on a Sunday evening, so anyone heading for the Western Spur, the Wall stretch of the Parkway or a Hudson crossing should check the live 511NJ feed before leaving — the crash in Newark and the debris in Wall are the two reports most likely to still be shaping the drive.
