Officers managing traffic closure near Convention Center, Portland OR


Officers are managing a traffic closure near the Convention Center and Grand Avenue due to trucks and congestion. They are deciding whether to open or keep lanes closed to control flow and avoid traffic issues.
Audio|Source: Portland State University Police and Portland Police Service Desk
04:15
Transcript:
00:00
As the convention center and these people can't get through to get to the back of the convention center.
00:07
Am I able to take this right turn, no right turn now?
00:12
I think it'd be safe to say that you could do that.
00:15
Just walk everything on this side of the cut and then just go ahead and do that.
00:27
To Delta Overdose M&M Restaurant, near North Maine, Parker, Psox (number withheld).
00:37
Copy-134 location, I'm on the...
00:42
I'm on the...
00:45
From the address near 5609, sign 6458-809, 1079, please.
00:56
159th Street.
01:00
1306 Thank you And my citation the number is Oh,
01:14
the license plate is 821, Lincoln, Sam, Adam And my citation number is Henry Alpha (number withheld).
01:27
This is up here on Lombark.
01:30
There's a hydrant there I'm going to use.
01:36
I was going down with Laman, but I can switch that up.
01:42
Thank you, Sackcher, the other gentleman don't need your carers.
01:52
Anybody else all right?
01:57
Ninety-four, timber square patrols are complete, cutoffer.
02:04
Fine.
02:08
Rottweiler puppy or a Rottweiler with a puppy?
02:14
With a puppy.
02:21
C4, a monitoring tapout C4.
02:28
13, 108, R2.
02:31
13-3.
02:35
Hey, since, do you want me to open up that intersection at Grand or just leave it the way it is?
02:44
It's copy, 13-08.
02:49
I thought to come up there and help you look at that, but I can't.
02:53
But yeah, that should be good.
02:55
As long as you wall off everything this side of that interstack,
03:03
I'd let this one lane come up a grand.
03:07
I wouldn't open.
03:09
If you have two-turns coming left right there, they're going to have problems.
03:14
Getting on about game.
03:18
I'm just going to leave it just wait for it right now because still got traffic trucks and all that stuff where our parks, they're all parked right there.
03:27
So I'll leave it right there for now.
03:30
It's going to be working.
03:35
311 this morning.
03:46
They could just straight across or one lane turn right left and that would work.
03:55
Do that anything? I don't know.
03:57
I think that's just going to cost some confusion.
04:00
I think it's fine the way it is right now and then after once traffic gets out then we can open it up.
04:07
And if it's plus them to have traffic coming off with our MLK, I'm going to have to be watching them and other people turning on the red light.
04:13
So I'm just going to leave it the way it is.
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