Traffic accident blocks both lanes at Lexington and Cicero, Chicago IL
TrafficA traffic accident at the intersection near Lexington St and Cicero Ave in Chicago caused both northbound and southbound lanes to be blocked. Police coordinated rerouting of city buses and closed the I-290 off-ramp at Cicero to manage congestion and improve traffic flow.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 12
02:27
Transcript:
00:00
Hey for the unit (name withheld) and Lexington Citrus. Do we need a reroute traffic for any PCP buses?
00:10
2532 or 33 you got any of the lanes blocked over there?
00:17
I'm sorry, Austin 33 or 32?
00:23
Austin 3-3, yeah, it's kind of a messelper, let me just get a situation now, what you know is going on.
00:32
Okay, both north and southbound lanes on Lexington and Fitchell are lost for right now.
00:42
Okay, you need a bus to reroute? You need a bus to reroute?
00:48
The bus for right now, you can rewrite the bus.
00:53
Hello, CTS Supervisor.
00:55
I'm over there and make the determination.
01:01
15,
01:03
20.
01:04
Austin, 20.
01:07
What units are blocking north and southbound traffic against Israel?
01:12
Do you have the 11 district over there with you?
01:14
33.
01:18
32, we have couple of 11th District cars over here.
01:23
Yeah, it's on the border. That's 11 is over there as well.
01:30
50-20, can I get a 15 district prior to block southbound this road traffic at Harrison, please?
01:44
I'm sorry, what are you going to score? Okay,
01:50
zero for Harrison, welcome.
01:52
Austin, so that's up so far.
01:59
1520, can we request state to help the off-ramp at Cicero backing up? I'm going to close that down for now.
02:09
The off-ramp and Cicero going,
02:13
bless now.
02:16
Yeah, the off-ramp 290 inbound getting off at Cicero's backing up, he went to close that down.
02:24
All right, we're talking about it. One, two, four, I got that traffic moving out.
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Location mentioned:
W Lexington St & Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60644
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