As the sun glinted off Interstate 84 early Sunday morning, no travelers were in sight and Gov. Tina Kotek pushed a paint roller into a bucket of light gray paint. Working in broad strokes, she covered a gray, black and white tag about the size of a door on the closed César E. Chávez off-ramp.
“This is a reset for this corridor,” Kotek said at hour eight of the overnight interstate closure she helped bring about, to clear graffiti and litter along a beleaguered five-mile stretch of I-84.
I-84 reopened Sunday just after 11:30 a.m. after six entities, including the Oregon Department of Transportation, Union Pacific, TriMet, Metro, the Portland Bureau of Transportation and Multnomah County, collaborated to halt auto and light rail traffic in the area to access unsightly tags that are otherwise very difficult to reach.
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