Both directions of the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles were closed on Tuesday evening as police responded to a possible jumper, snarling traffic for miles on one of the nation’s most heavily traveled highways.

The California Highway Patrol said that  it closed the northbound lanes of the freeway at Main Street and the southbound lanes at Hill Street.

Los Angeles police officers had converged at the Main Street overpass, where a man had scaled the fence and had been standing on a ledge above the roadway.

According to authorities, shortly after 7 PM the CHP announced that the possible jumper was coaxed off the overpass and taken into custody. All lanes on the freeway were reopened by 7:15 PM.

The Los Angeles Fire Department had been dispatched to set up inflatable cushions on the freeway.

The particular stretch of the 101 Freeway saw on average more than 200,000 drivers per day, according to the traffic data collected in 2014 by the California Department of Transportation.

By Prakriti Neogi