Evening Traffic: A Turnpike Crash Blocks Two of Three Lanes in Linden, US 40 Is Closed in Both Directions in Pittsgrove for a Crash Investigation, and a Gas Main Break Closes a Shoulder in Morristown
The 511NJ board at 3:46 p.m. Eastern leads with the Turnpike northbound south of Interchange 13 and a full closure of US 40 at Dutch Row Road. A disabled tractor-trailer closes a lane on US 1 in Lawrence, and a second one blocks a Turnpike entrance ramp in Newark.
The evening board's hardest item is on the New Jersey Turnpike. NJDOT's 511NJ feed, timestamped 3:46 p.m. Eastern and read in full by this desk, reports a crash on the Turnpike's northbound Inner Roadway south of Interchange 13 — the I-278 and Goethals Bridge interchange — in Linden, with two lanes of three blocked, in a Turnpike Authority entry timestamped 3:27 p.m. One lane is getting through on the Inner Roadway at the Staten Island crossing approach, on the side of the evening that builds toward the Goethals and the Outerbridge corridors.
The board's only full closure is in Salem County. On US 40 in both directions at CR 611, Dutch Row Road, in Pittsgrove Township, a crash investigation has all lanes closed eastbound and all lanes closed westbound, in an NJDOT entry timestamped 3:30 p.m. The feed lists the item as a crash investigation and reports no injuries or fatalities; none are reported here, and the closure is the news until NJDOT changes it. Around those two, the feed carries a gas main break on US 202 northbound south of NJ 24 in Morristown, with the right shoulder closed (3:42 p.m.); a disabled tractor-trailer on US 1 northbound at US 1 Business in Lawrence Township, with one right lane of two closed (3:34 p.m.); and a disabled tractor-trailer on the Turnpike southbound entrance ramp to Interchange 15E from US 1&9 in Newark, with one left lane of two blocked (3:00 p.m.).
The standing items are unchanged: Port Street in Newark remains under truck restrictions in both directions between Brewster Road and Marlin Street, with the left lane closed, and the George Washington Bridge lower level eastbound carries truck restrictions with all lanes open. One honest absence: the US 206 closure in Montgomery Township that led the early-afternoon board does not appear in the top listing of the 3:46 p.m. feed read this run; this desk claims no clearance time for it, because the feed gives none. For drivers tonight, the practical read is the Turnpike at Linden and the full stop on US 40 — everything else on the New Jersey board is a lane or a shoulder, and 511NJ remains the live source for both reopenings.
