Water main break causes road closure on Commercial Ave, Madison WI
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Road ClosureAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency response personnel discussed a water main break on Commercial Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. The incident caused a road closure and required detours for vehicles and transit routes near Walmart and the frontage road. Dispatchers coordinated rerouting details through radio communication.
Audio|Heard on: Dane WI Transportation Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
01:39
Transcript:
00:00
Hey (name withheld), I'm gonna have a little detour for you on Commercial Avenue when you get past Walmart up there.
00:06
There's a water main break.
00:07
I'll send it to you in text.
00:08
Just want to give you a heads up that once you get on the commercial frontage,
00:13
We'll be taking a left on Ziegler right on Collin to pull back out to Commercial Avenue, but I'll send it to you in a text.
00:24
That's at school route correct? Yeah, when you come out on the frontage there, it's Commercial Avenue actually, but it's kind of a frontage.
00:31
There is a water main break.
00:33
Yeah, so we'll just send you back on Ziegler to Collin, then Pulley, and then Pulley brings you right back out to Commercial Avenue.
00:41
There I'll take you back down to the roundabout to continue on regular route on Thompson.
00:46
Ten four.
00:47
And when you are going back south on that same G, you'll just do the exact thing opposite.
00:54
Just bore.
00:55
(name withheld), you got a copy?
00:58
Yeah, this is (name withheld).
01:00
Hey, I sent you a detour.
01:01
It's a little bit later on your G route.
01:03
There's a little water main break up there on that frontage road on Commercial Avenue.
01:08
A 17 attacks.
01:09
If you have any issues once you get upon it, just give me a holler.
01:13
But I just wanted to give you a heads up because they're going to be, they got a little bit of the roadblock, but it's just around the block and we can get around no problem.
01:20
Okay, 10-4.
01:21
I'll call if I get confused or if they change.
01:24
Like they usually do,
01:26
It sounded like they were pretty centralized around this one road.
01:29
So hopefully we'll be all right.
01:30
But (name withheld)'s going to run through there in a little bit too.
01:33
But yep, so if you have any issues when you get up there,
01:36
Just take that left on Ziegler and then you'll figure it out.
Disclaimer:
This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Commercial Ave & Ziegler Rd, Madison, WI 53714
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