{"id":60669,"date":"2025-12-04T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60669\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:33:08","slug":"nyc-traffic-goethals-bridge-backed-up-verrazzano-lanes-to-s-i-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60669\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC traffic: Goethals Bridge backed up, Verrazzano lanes to S.I. closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/transportation\/\" title=\"Navigate to Transportation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a>Updated: Dec. 04, 2025, 8:15 a.m.|Published: Dec. 04, 2025, 8:12 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Traffic 12\/4\/25\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ML6U46LZGNEKTOEUBBZJVFX7NU.png\"  \/>This image shows the traffic building up on the Staten Island Expressway at South Avenue.511NY<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GYLZJOO5KVDULJVGEPA47WEY7M\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Morning commuters heading into New York via the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PANYNJ_GB\/status\/1996551014581965216?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PANYNJ_GB\/status\/1996551014581965216?s=20\">Goethals Bridge are facing delays<\/a> Thursday morning due to heavy congestion along the Staten Island Expressway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6GMAR4NSGNDCJDRSISI3TPK2Y4\">Also, planned work on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge has closed one Staten Island-bound lane on the upper and lower level of the span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KQEJRFZAFFE4LLG5OROKWCQOCQ\">Drivers should expect slower travel times and consider alternate routes where possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WWFQ3PEJ75HOXNZZXDCIZCMARM\">Updates will be posted as conditions change. This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>McLawrence joined SILive.com in 2022, she holds a master&#8217;s degree from Syracuse University&#8217;s Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a breaking news reporter, she covers diverse topics including crime,&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TransportationUpdated: Dec. 04, 2025, 8:15 a.m.|Published: Dec. 04, 2025, 8:12 a.m.This image shows the traffic building up on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-60669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}