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Road closure enforced on Mortensen Pkwy to eastbound traffic, Ames IA

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Mortensen Pkwy & Beach Ave, Ames, IA 50014

Police officers are enforcing a road closure on Mortensen Parkway at Beach Avenue to block eastbound traffic except for an officiating crew with an escort. Some drivers are making illegal U-turns nearby to bypass the closure. Officers are monitoring and directing traffic to prevent this violation.

Audio|Source: Iowa Dept of Public Safety Dispatch - Area A
02:6
Transcript:
00:00
Any East Mountain traffic on Mortensen?
00:04
is not allowed with the exception of the officiating crew, but they'll have law enforcement escort this year 43.
00:16
We've got a lot of eastbound traffic, and I'm not sure where it's coming from. It's coming from west of beach,
00:22
but there is a stream of eastbounders.
00:27
Okay,
00:28
halt them. Nobody is allowed eastbound on Mortensen.
00:33
Hold them and they can wait their turn. If they don't want to follow the rules, they're going to pay the price.
00:39
Ten-four.
00:44
I wasn't sure if there was another TCP to the west of Beach to stop them from coming eastbound, but we are right now having Southbunders go through.
00:56
There should be a TCP at Beach and Mortensen directing them west.
01:03
But if it's any like the previous games,
01:06
they simply do a UE and turn around it,
01:11
head back eastbound.
01:18
If everybody off the beach is going west out, then they just go up a block or two to a ue in there coming back east.
01:28
Okay, 10-4.
01:29
Once we get enough eastbound traffic, they should get the picture and they should stop that.
01:39
473, 527.
01:44
Go ahead. I'm sitting here at the vet clinic making sure they don't come through the barricades. 10-4.
01:53
Are you able to go over to Mortensen and maybe cut down some of that U-turn traffic?
01:59
If not, that's okay.
02:04
Ten-four. I'll run out there.

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