Traffic congestion and road closures near Lexington Ave, New York NY
TrafficTraffic congestion and road closures are affecting 51st Street and 57th Street near Lexington Avenue in New York City. Westbound traffic on 51st Street at 3rd Avenue is closed and rerouted. Vehicles on 51st Street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue must turn south on Lexington. Traffic between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue must go north on 3rd Avenue. There are severe delays with many buses stacked on 57th Street waiting to go westbound from 3rd Avenue to 1st Avenue. Traffic supervisors are working to manage and improve the flow at affected intersections.
Audio|Source: NYPD Citywide 3
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Transcript:
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The cutoff time for them is 1850 and then they got to go.
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10-4[1].
00:12
No,
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766, 677 666,
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6.
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Go for 666.
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66. This is our location, go to Madison near 48 and 49. Madison near 48 and 49.
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Madison near 48 49. Madison near 48 49.
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Matt 10.4.
00:46
Lieutenant Fitzgerald on here?
00:50
That Michelle, send him by.
00:51
Mr. Wayne, can you reach out to Sergeant in Section 21? Anything that gets to him at 3rd Avenue in 151 is going to go north on 3rd Avenue.
01:04
1st. 121, Sergeant Red.
01:11
Group Sergeant, 2nd, Section 27 on here?
01:18
Lieutenant Steve on here?
01:22
Yeah, I'm here.
01:24
Yeah, hello.
01:25
Give me a favor, can you reach out to Section 27 sergeant?
01:29
Anything that gets to 51 and Lex has to go south on Lex. No more westbound on 51.
01:37
Anything that 51 or Lex has to go west?
01:41
Anything that goes west on 51 at Lex has to go south on Lexington.
01:53
I find that last message.
01:58
All traffic on 51st Street is going west,
02:02
between 3rd and Lex,
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has to go south on Lexington.
02:07
Anything between 2nd and 3rd has to go north on 3rd Avenue.
02:14
Two-suitous-oution Red.
02:21
Five.
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Probably.
02:26
Probably came from there.
02:35
On here, Mr. Jones.
02:38
The advice, traffic coming from 51st Street will be making a southbound turn on Lexington. So make sure agents and supervisors give a hard pull on Lexington southbound. Thank for?
02:52
That's for a copy.
02:58
So, yeah.
03:03
Manager Coco on here.
03:08
Roger.
03:09
Yeah,
03:11
boss, justifying the reloads on 49 parking mats are being completed as we speak.
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And moving on to Madison near 48-49 and supervisor Karana is sending his trucks upon completion of their reload to Madison near 48-49.
03:30
Ten-four. I'm right here, 49 and bargain method. Ten-four.
03:35
Okay, right, thank you.
03:38
Okay, poor.
03:42
Okay. Okay. Okay. So,
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fingers around there?
03:51
Better proceed.
03:54
So any update on 2nd Avenue by 61st, you know, FDR?
04:00
Second Avenue is open. We still have extremely heavy traffic on 2nd and 1st because 57th Street westbound is not moving. We can move for maybe 7, 8 lights.
04:11
Stand for it, sir, copy.
04:17
We have about maybe 40, 50 buses stacked on 57th Street, waiting to go westbound from about 3rd Avenue coming all the way back to 1st Avenue.
04:30
Ladd, I know, gentlemen, we're doing your best. Thank you so much, Jake, so thank you, for that update.
04:35
I'm sorry, I'm here?
04:37
On here, actually?
04:39
If we let's block through, are we letting west and Easton go on 57th Street or is still held up?
04:46
No, there should be no restriction on 57th Street going east and west at this time.
04:51
All righty, uh, Manager Jude, Director Singh, let's start working on getting 57th Street moving a little bit better, please.
05:00
Slat, Chief, a real-upon-valk-on-valk-on-valk-in.
05:05
Manager, you copy, Manager-Jude?
05:08
Copy, thanks a lot, Dedy.
05:10
Ex-Sold Singleton, you copy?
05:13
You copy it.
05:15
Okay,
05:16
what I'm going to do is I'm going to have Commander Russell go to 575 and maybe the issues at 5th where all these buses are going to turn on 5th Avenue but it's not moving.
05:25
But I have Russell go over there because he's closed. I'm only over here in second.
05:30
Excessive, I'll be back to that location.
05:33
575. Hi.
05:34
Thank you, Russell.
05:35
No problem.
05:37
No problem. No consumer budget. No consumer budget attend.
05:45
Lieutenant Sheld on the air.
05:49
This is some of a minute going to Bramana and not that. Do you have the available?
05:54
No track what I ask him, track.
06:01
The accident.
06:03
The Senate's failed on the air?
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The benefit failed, saying goodbye.
06:09
Be advised, 51st Street, westbound track, 3rd Avenue, is closed down.
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And four, thank you. He's talking about your red.
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10-5[2].
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513 are westbound. It's closing in effect right now.
06:26
104.
06:27
Chief, I wrecked this thing on the air.
06:31
Can you by, Chief?
06:33
Yeah, what supervisors do you have, a 57, and 1?
06:37
A lot of still back.
06:38
I see traffic armpes, but no traffic supervisors.
06:42
Can we get us better control on this intersection, please?
06:46
That's support, Chief. There's a full. Excerting on there, extra Singleton.
06:50
I have a supervisor that's at the location. Let me find out which is on his act. We're supposed to be. We'll have a shot behind.
06:57
You got a hot call which is listening to the race.
07:01
Shot to John.
07:02
Let's get it going over here, okay?
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