Goat Causes Accident On Pulaski Skyway In NJ

New Jersey's Pulaski Skyway is known for being an unpredictable, trafficky four-lane causeway flying high above the city of Newark. Rush hour commuters to New York City using the 3½ mile long bridge as a toll-free highway alternative to the I-78 Newark Bay Jersey Turnpike Extension likely wished they would've coughed up the extra few bucks to use the nearby Casciano Bridge this morning.

A wandering goat found its way onto the busy Pulaski Skyway around 7 a.m. Monday, causing a four-vehicle accident on the narrow, shoulder-less freeway bridge. As if traffic wasn't already likely congested enough along the northbound lanes at that time in the morning, the goat made matters much worse.

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Jersey City Police Captain Edgar Martinez told the Jersey Journal that it took 90 minutes to corral the goat, which, if domesticated, would've had to make quite the journey to climb atop the skyway. The Pulaski Skyway carries US 1&9 for most of its length, high above the industrial city of Kearny and the state's largest city of Newark. It is not anywhere close to the greenery referenced by the nickname "Garden State" that would be the goat's likely home.

When Martinez's force, along with the Kearny P.D. and Animal Control attempted to lasso the goat, it began hopping and skipping across the hoods of frustrated Holland Tunnel-bound motorists whose work day had just encountered much more than a case of the Mondays.

The goat may have just been preparing inbound Pulaski Skyway commuters for what lie ahead for them. The 81-year-old aging structure is undergoing a billion dollar rehabilitation project, which will include a two-year closure of the northbound lanes of the crucial intercity link beginning after the Superbowl comes to New Jersey in 2014.