Traffic jam at railroad crossing near Lakeside and 3rd St, Woodland WA
TrafficTraffic is heavily backed up near a railroad crossing near Lakeside and 3rd St in Cowlitz County. Drivers are attempting to turn around and some are driving the wrong way on an on-ramp due to the blockage. Crews are working to manually raise the crossing arm to clear the traffic.
Audio|Source: Cowlitz County Public Safety, Columbia County Law Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
So it's going to be the tracks as a crossing by lakeside, not third, break.
00:05
And right now traffic's backed up almost to seven, and then it's pushing pretty far down third industrial for the on-round.
00:14
Copy. Burlington Northern was aware that's one by like side and they were going to send a crew and out immediately.
00:20
They just didn't have an ETA.
00:21
Copy. Yeah, I've got people trying to drive their wrong way down ramp.
00:25
Three David, David, two.
00:27
Can you manually raise them?
00:28
I'm trying to get down there.
00:29
I'm gonna see if I can do it.
00:31
All far ahead, your way for traffic.
00:32
Copy.
00:33
Control on Chief A1.
00:34
Chief A1. Chief A1.
00:36
Officer 2. Officer 2. David, two,
00:37
three, David. Four scenes in Delaware, go ahead.
00:39
I don't know where BNSF is coming from, but it might work out better to have U.S.
00:46
court them down the wrong way, because it's really packed up here.
00:50
I still have people trying to turn around and go the wrong way on ramp.
00:54
So they're coming from third trying to get on the ten and turn around there?
00:58
There, and it looked like there was a few people trying the same thing on the ramp that goes west.
01:06
Let's see if we can manually raise the arm first before we start guiding people the wrong way.
01:12
Yeah, I'm not guiding them there.
01:13
They're choosing you that and tells.
01:15
I'm ninth and tenant.
01:16
Let us know if you need more.
01:17
Yeah, got it a little.
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Location mentioned:
3rd St, Woodland, WA 98674
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