{"id":98885,"date":"2026-01-13T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:09:07","slug":"goethals-bridge-delays-heavy-truck-congestion-snarls-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98885\/","title":{"rendered":"Goethals Bridge delays: Heavy truck congestion snarls traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Published: Jan. 13, 2026, 10:57 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Truck traffic on the Staten Island Expressway\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KGKL67QYRVAJNN2RUNGX6WDWSQ.png\"  \/>Truck traffic is causing congestion on the Goethals Bridge and the Staten Island Expressway on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026.(511NY)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4JTMXQQZTNFHZHJBQZII2KLYQE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Truck traffic is causing delays on the Goethals Bridge and the Staten Island Expressway Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JDZ37YESG5BCDLYFKGNCZX6CC4\">The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is reporting \u201cheavy truck congestion\u201d on the expressway at the exit for Forest and Gulf avenues about 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HFO2WTTORJAOHMLRKEJDMUS72U\">The exit is clogged with large trucks, according to surveillance camera footage available on 511NY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JOHMBDITMBBTHF3DQEOJVCSTDQ\">Truck congestion has been an ongoing problem near the span, which leads to traffic snarls on access roads for the Staten Island Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>I try to provide timely information that Staten Islanders want and need to know about in their neighborhoods. Most of my stories are about crimes that affect the quality of life on Staten Island. How drug&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyPublished: Jan. 13, 2026, 10:57 a.m.Truck traffic is causing congestion on the Goethals Bridge and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-98885","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\/98885","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=98885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}