Police temporarily close road near Belmont Bridge for bus turn, Charlottesville VA


Police are temporarily closing a road near the Belmont Bridge and Lexis-Mexis patio to allow buses to make a difficult turn. Officers are moving cars and stopping traffic to clear the way. The closure is expected to last around 30 minutes as buses pass one by one.
Audio|Source: Charlottesville Albemarle Shared Interop
02:27
Transcript:
00:00
All right, the bus is right behind me coming up to hold of iPad. We either got a pinum or move them. buses are coming. Busses are passing lane baseball field. Hey guys, it's real tight on this turn on water. This bus is using every inch it's got.
00:27
Right after we go under Belmont Bridge, they're going to stop in the middle of the road at the Lexis-Mexis patio. They'll go in the back of the pavilion. All right. But whatever their first motor is that gets under the bridge, just go all the way down to Tenth and Barkett and shut it off so we can stop there and come in traffic so we can get them turned around. We'll have a motor a Tenth in water.
00:56
Take the mortgage. All right.
01:01
I think you want all of us on that end.
01:03
Yeah, I was just going to skate through before they turn around.
01:06
Make sure we got everything contained down here.
01:07
There's no more traffic.
01:08
We've got everything down yearly.
01:10
Civil. Hey, we're going to have to move these cars, Jeff, because they're going to have to make a three-point turn right here.
01:15
So I'll go to the traffic light, let's just turn them around, or whoever that is.
01:18
Dave, if you just hold the traffic light, we'll get these three cars out of here because the buses are going to need this whole intersection.
01:23
I'll need any more motors.
01:24
Is there anything down near 10th to help turn around?
01:26
No, we got to figure it out down there.
01:28
Hey, motor on the Water Street there with that car with a full-way flasher's on.
01:31
Do you want to turn him around and send him our way and we'll get him out of here?
01:34
Let me ask him.
01:35
You can tell him it's probably going to be 30 plus minutes that we're going to have this section closed down.
01:39
They probably want to go back out to market.
01:40
The buses are going to start coming at one at a time.
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Location mentioned:
Belmont Bridge, Avon St, Charlottesville, VA 22902
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