Traffic accident causes major congestion on Menands Bridge, Rensselaer County NY
TrafficA traffic accident occurred on the Menands Bridge causing major congestion. The traffic is backed up onto Route 787 and possibly extending toward Watervliet and Troy.
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00:00
Yeah, I don't know what you got, but I think there's an accident here on the Menands Bridge.
00:04
It's backed up onto 787 now.
00:08
It looks like it's backing up onto,
00:11
what is it, the one that goes into Waterville slash Menands.
00:26
Roger that, well thanks for the heads up.
00:35
Thanks for the heads up there, Myring, TP2HRM.
00:41
A lot of people aren't going to be happy with that.
00:47
Yeah, I kind of caught me off guard.
00:49
I got a meeting at 6.
00:50
I'm hoping I can make it in time.
00:53
It's over in Latham.
00:54
I'm not on the bridge yet.
00:56
I'm looking down the bridge, so it might not actually be on the bridge, but somewhere over on the other side on the Troy side.
01:11
Yeah, you don't know if it's on the bridge or what way.
01:13
Now where are you right now? You're north in 787?
01:19
It was. I'm now merging on to the bridge or just about to merge onto the bridge.
01:31
Well, someone could be volume, but only out that much.
01:34
Yeah.
01:36
Well, that's bad this morning, you know, you know, can look this morning.
01:39
Everybody's back to work, too.
01:41
But,
01:43
yeah, anybody listening there probably is a few out there.
01:47
Don't be taking that.
01:50
And I don't miss those commutes.
01:55
Wasn't a problem this morning.
01:57
I can tell you that much.
01:59
I'm looking down.
02:00
I don't see any lights at all on the bridge.
02:03
So I don't think, oh, I take that back.
02:05
There is. There's something occurred.
02:07
It looks to be on the westward side.
02:13
I see some lights about halfway through the bridge.
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Rensselaer County, NY
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