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Portland Monday metro traffic: SE Louden Rd near Corbett closed for slope repair
Updated Apr 05, 2021;
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A short section of Southeast Louden Road near Corbett will be closed starting 7 a.m. Monday while a contractor repairs a slope below the road.
The section of Louden Road, between Southeast Littlepage and O’Regan roads, closed in late January due to damage to the hillside below the road from a broken water line. A 100-foot section reopened in early February with one travel lane. A recent release said Multnomah County had a geotechnical evaluation done and has contracted out the repairs.
Jan 20, 2021
Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) crews reopened West Burnside at about 5:15 p.m. today, after clearing debris from a recent landslide and working to make the area safe from imminent risk of additional slides. Crews from Portland General Electric, Portland Parks & Recreation, and PBOT worked through the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday weekend to mitigate the issues caused by the landslide and reopen the road as soon as possible.
The closure was needed to clear a large landslide that came after a heavy rain-and-wind storm. At about 11 p.m. on Tuesday Jan. 12, a landslide pushed large trees and soil from Forest Park onto West Burnside. About a half dozen large trees were down, with others looming over the roadway. At least one tree was leaning on the Barbara Walker Crossing, Portland Parks & Recreation’s pedestrian bridge that opened in 2019 to safely connect the popular Wildwood Trail across West Burnside.