Multiple crashes cause heavy traffic delays on Highway 41 and 172, Green Bay WI
TrafficMultiple accidents have caused significant traffic delays and gridlock on Highway 41 and 172 near Green Bay and Appleton. Drivers reported slow speeds and blocked routes, with some roads closed or impassable due to crashes. Traffic congestion extends through nearby local roads as motorists seek alternate routes.
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Big backup starting right around the TV exit heading west.
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It's TB.
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GB, Gulf Victor, right after you're heading toward GPR.
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It's a gridlock.
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That gridlock starts in Appleton.
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I suppose, that's that time it's just going, it's not Friday, it only happens on Friday.
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all the way from Appleton.
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So I got off at the Ballard Road.
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And I was coming off 441, going on to 41, and I thought, forget this.
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So I went straight and got on the highway and headed west and went up on Ballard Road.
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And I took Edgewood across, which turns to JJ,
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and I took JJ all the way across to avoid the highway, went past where that Hamfest used to be.
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And then once I got the JJ,
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I eventually popped out by the freedom, or not freedom, rights town.
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And then I thought, oh, I'm going to get on the highway up here.
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So I got on the highway by the Wrightstown turn off, and it was still gridlock.
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So I rode at 25 miles an hour for a little bit north, and then I exited it on Freedom Road.
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And now I'm taking Lawrence Drive up to the pier.
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And I'm actually, and I'm getting a 25-mile-an-hour residential area right now on Lawrence Drive, where those new houses are.
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And by the way, well...
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about a house in here and I'm still I'm beating the traffic on 41.
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I'm on 172.
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We're going, we've just got up to 30 miles an hour here.
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And hopefully getting off up here at Webster, get down the lower road here in the Head City Pier myself.
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So, yeah, it's probably long.
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It's because it's not like we're dead still.
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It's like you do in Chicago sometimes you sit dead still for an hour.
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So I'm still moving.
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I'm probably going faster in this residential area than I was on the highway.
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So I'm going to come up through the pier and probably take, you know, Webster or whatever and cut through there somehow.
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I'm not even going to get on the highway anymore.
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I've got to head home, grab my computer.
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double-check a couple things, and then head over to the meeting and get set up and see if I can get my computer to communicate with the screens.
02:03
This is the K-9GB repeater.
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First, okay. Well, it looks like the other side of the road heading back 172 looks like it's moving along pretty good.
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There's no blocks there at all.
02:15
I'm just coming up to Webster now, so I should be okay the rest of the way in.
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Oh yeah, it's one of the big problems is becoming a big city.
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It gets towards the traffic gets worse and worse.
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41 is not normal, so something's happening that's causing it.
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Because when I come through here at this time any other day, it's moving pretty good.
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So I don't know if there's a traffic accident up ahead or what's going on.
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But it's pretty much stuck.
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Well, guess what? Lawrence Road is dead.
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Well, this is just wonderful.
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I can't take Lawrence now.
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I can't get there. Lawrence is blocked off.
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We got two who had a couple accidents up here at the intersection that's top of Webster in 72.
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Oh well, the traffic is moving along though.
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We can see it on the bridge is out for 172.
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That's all taillight.
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It's up toward, you know, Walmart and Menards and that, well, guess what, I can't get there.
03:05
So I might have to go south now all the way back to freedom and get back on the highway.
03:09
Later. What am I gonna do? Let's see.
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I gotta figure out what my options are here.
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I'm looking at my map.
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US-41, Green Bay, WI
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