Severe delays in Lincoln Tunnel to NYC due to crash: Port Authority

Published: Sep 10, 2024 Duration: 00:02:21 Category: News & Politics

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commuters and has more on what went wrong this morning. And what is happening this evening. >> ready. It was just a confluence of circumstances this morning that led to a nightmare for virtually everyone coming in from New Jersey and heading into the city. At one point stuck for so long on buses heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel that they just got up and walked off the boss. >> Oh, my God. It was a commute for to the Milwaukee say they started coming off the buses NJ Transit bus riders so fed up with stand still traffic Tuesday morning. They got off on the highway and writer, OK, be a Red Way. Watch to several headed to a nearby Secaucus shopping plaza where they could pick up other buses rideshares overall. I think it was at least >> maybe 15, 20 people that started to meet the transit buses, multiple buses. The nightmare commute was the result of multiple traffic problems. Compounding at once. >> A motorcycle accident shut down the center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel from roughly 04:00AM until 9. >> A bus breakdown in the south to Brown. 7 created more delays and overturned vehicle on Route 3 blocked a lane of traffic in East Rutherford heading to New York. And on top of that, New Jersey transit suspended trains into Penn Station for an hour just before 10:00AM because of overhead. Wire issues. pretty hectic. Sour wheezes bus from Hackensack was among those diverted away from the Lincoln Tunnel to Secaucus where he was then diverted again because of New Jersey Transit's issues. And we got to. >> caucus and they let us off where they left. The other buses And then there are people telling us that they weren't going to go to Penn Station. We're going to take a train to Hoboken. know we got to Hoboken and we got the path train and then the path train brought us up to 33rd Street and the delays had a ripple effect. The private commuting company Boxcar took a financial hit. This was by far the worst commuting day that are writers have ever had will lose yeah. $20,000 a to day because we everybody who is on a bus that was stopped. >> We are giving them the credit. >> And right now there are a handful of New Jersey Transit bus and train delays or cancellations either because of equipment availability or operator availability. But certainly nothing like what

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