Traffic directed to avoid congestion near Monroe and Jackson, Birdsboro PA
OtherInstructions were given to direct traffic and avoid congestion near Monroe and Jackson Street during a band event involving children. Vehicles were instructed to keep moving without stopping to pick up children at the bottleneck area to maintain traffic flow.
Audio|Source: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
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Transcript:
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see if you can get word out to the Amity girl that's out there at Monroe.
00:08
Tell her that when the band and everything gets there, the van's going to go straight and go out under near Jackson St.
00:15
Everybody else is supposed to keep moving, or the parents can turn up, Monroe, and there's parking area up there where they can pick the kids up.
00:25
So I can try and get her to keep traffic moving out there and don't let them stop and get cluttered up.
00:34
So anyone go straight, the band, copy.
00:39
They either go straight there, then go toward the culvert, or they turn out Madison. But nobody sits there and picks kids up. They keep moving.
00:49
All right.
00:51
So that's where the bottleneck occurred last year. They were stopping there to pick the kids up.
00:56
But they're not supposed to. They're either supposed to go straight and go out to pick over or turn up one row and pick them up at the top of one row.
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Location mentioned:
Jackson St, Birdsboro, PA 19508
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