U.S. Route 9

Heather?

Okay, so Brittany, Route 9 north from Bayshore Drive to Barnegat Beach Drive, it's closed.

They are dealing with a gas leak there.

And then we deal with this breaking traffic news across Bronx Expressway west, Bronx River Parkway.

Speaking of travel time, sitting right around a half hour on that northbound side from the Vine to Woodhaven Road, moving about 26 miles per hour, 25 minutes if you're headed southbound into Center City from Northeast Philadelphia.

We also have a crash down in Cape May County, New Jersey, in Upper Township, to be exact, on Route 9.

And 511 New Jersey is reporting that this is closed in both directions between Butter Road and Ocean Avenue, so you will maybe need to take the Garden State Parkway as an alternate while they continue investigating that crash that happened there.

Out in Sanitoga, we have a crash on the 422 eastbound ramp toward Sanitoga.

Good afternoon.

We have construction on 287 northbound between exits 1 and 4 blocking at least one lane and on Route 9 you have road work in South Amboy southbound between Victory Circle and Washington Avenue.

That's in the right lane and then an old bridge construction southbound 9 around Poor Farm Road that blocks the left lane.

Also, midday work on the eastbound Newark Bay extension of the Turnpike by 14C.

At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines.

Sprung from cages out on Highway 9, chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, and steppin' out over the line.

Oh, baby, this town rips the bones from your back.

It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap.

And a critic that saw the performance, a music critic from, uh, the Bo-- uh, New-- Boston newspaper said, "I saw rock 'n' roll's future, and his name is Bruce Springsteen." Now, the critic that said that was Jon Landau, and Jon Landau would later go on to become Bruce Springsteen's manager.

Surely a very lucrative job.

Some interesting references, geographical references in the song, including Highway 9, referring to Route 9 in New Jersey, which went through Springsteen's hometown of Freehold.

And he sang about another Jersey road, Route 88, in the song Spirit in the Night.

Yeah.

Do you remember, I think you mentioned it, there was like a little VFW hall on Route 9 somewhere near Tom's River.

Almost close by to also... maybe it was close by or maybe it was like in Lakewood.

There was another, like a record store right up in that area too, right off the main road.

But yeah, who knew? The neighbors are complaining because I guess it's right in sort of a neighborhood.

Well, yeah, the raceway is right off Route 9 and right behind the raceway.

There are homes that live on what's Main Street, I believe it is, that goes more towards Jackson.

So I could see that being very loud.

And there's not exactly, you know, the Arts Center has the Garden State Parkway for sure.

There's really only a couple of ways out.

You've only got Route 9, which has traffic lights.

Yeah.

So travel times on 42 and 55 joining in with it are both right on time.

There is a problem though down in Middle Township, northbound side of Route 9 Shore Road is blocked there by the US gas.

There's a pull down with some wires down.

If you want to stay over on the parkway, that's fine so far this morning.