Cargo boat hits Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, causing major traffic delays

We want to get to some breaking news right now. A traffic headache between Philadelphia and South Jersey tonight. Pennsylvania State Representative Ed Nielsen confirming that a cargo ship struck the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge just a few hours today. And that is causing a big traffic nightmare out there. Our Don Timoney is on the road. What can you tell us, Don? We don't hear air on truck 6IFB. Hi. Apparently, I'm live right now, so I couldn't hear you. I'm guessing Shiva or Jason, whoever is on the anchor desk right now, but we are covering this Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, which is now, we're learning, closed indefinitely after it was hit by a cargo ship. It was about 1 o'clock this afternoon. Apparently, the bridge was open and... It was open for a crossing when the cargo ship hit it, and now they can't close it. So it's been like this for several hours. State Representative Ed Nielsen shared an alert on social media advising travelers because it's affecting people going into Philly and people coming across the river into New Jersey. It carries three lanes, two into Philly and one into New Jersey. So people who are getting off work, people who are getting out of school are impacted. Nielsen said that people should definitely try to find an alternate crossing of the Delaware River. We're in traffic right now. We are on the Jersey side. We didn't have any trouble. We took the Betsy Ross Bridge over trying to see if we would hit any traffic. We hit like typical rush hour traffic, but now we're on our way back into Pennsylvania. So obviously people are using the Betsy Ross Bridge as an alternate route and it's backed up, seriously backed up. No injuries were reported from what we understand. And, um... According to estimates from 2025, this bridge could carry as many as 76,200 vehicles a day. So obviously, this is a major crossing for people. Thank you. And State Representative Ed Nielsen said that people should... Definitely try to find an alternate route and to expect delays like we're seeing right now on the alternate routes. We did call the Burlington County Bridge Commission, which owns and operates the bridge, and we just got a recorded message which said that they would have an update at rush hour. Obviously it is rush hour, so we will continue to try to get through to them, but again, Tacony-Palmyra Bridge is closed, no word on when it's going to reopen, it's causing major traffic delays for people on their evening commute, home from work, home from school. And we will of course have more information as we get it, but it's a good idea to try to avoid the area if you can. And if you are taking an alternate crossing, you know, expect to be stuck in traffic for some time. Yeah, and this has been going on. Oh, I can hear you now, Sheba. All right. Dawn, great information out there. Again, this incident involving the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge has been going on since about 1 o'clock this afternoon. So do use an alternate route as they try to figure out how to resolve this issue with the bridge. Dawn, thank you.