Late-Morning Traffic: A Disabled Vehicle Blocks a Lane on NJ 495 in Union City, a Crash Slows the Turnpike at Interchange 13 in Elizabeth
The 511NJ board at 11:43 a.m. Eastern has two fresh New Jersey items — NJ 495 eastbound east of Kennedy Boulevard, and the Turnpike inside the Interchange 13 entry — plus the standing Port Street truck restrictions in Newark.
Two fresh incidents lead the 511NJ active-incidents feed read by this desk late Monday morning, timestamped 11:43 a.m. Eastern. The newest is a disabled vehicle on NJ 495 eastbound, east of Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, with one right lane of three blocked, in an entry timestamped 11:42 a.m. from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — the approach corridor toward the Lincoln Tunnel, where a single blocked lane at midday is the kind of item that builds a queue behind it. In Elizabeth, a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike inside the entry at Interchange 13 — the I-278 and Goethals Bridge interchange — has one right lane of four blocked, in a Turnpike Authority entry timestamped 11:10 a.m. The feed attaches no injury report to either item, and none is reported here.
The standing items complete the board. On Port Street in Newark, in both directions between Brewster Road and Marlin Street, truck restrictions remain in force with one left lane of two closed — a long-term condition in place since August 3, with Port Street reduced to one lane in each direction and to 11 feet wide, and signed detours for oversize loads. On the George Washington Bridge's lower level eastbound at Fort Lee, truck restrictions are posted with all lanes open. Compared with the board that opened the morning, the shape has rotated north and east: the South Jersey and Bergen lane closures that led the 8:10 a.m. feed do not appear in the top listing of the 11:43 feed read this run, and this desk claims no clearance time for them, because the feed gives none.
For drivers, the practical read is simple. The Union City item sits on the New York-bound side of NJ 495 in the middle of the day, when the corridor carries steady rather than peak volume — a lane down is a delay, not a shutdown. The Turnpike item is at an entry, not on the mainline through lanes, at the interchange that feeds the Goethals Bridge toward Staten Island. Neither item closes a road. The one full standing restriction on the New Jersey board remains Port Street in Newark, and it is a construction-era condition measured in months, not hours.
