SUPERVISORY REPORTS

I was located at the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge. The westbound buses went on

re-route at approx 9:15am due to the fact that there was a bridge lift to bring the barge in that was using the fireworks. I directed the people from the stop on Madison @ 2^nd to the temp stop on 2^nd @ Madison. I only had 10 to 15 people that were re-directed. Many I walked over to the stop. I was at the temp stop at all re-routed buses and no-one missed a transfer because of this event going westbound.

The fireworks ended approx 10:15pm and the westbound buses were put back to regular route at 10:20pm.

I had no problems to report.

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Took up late Westside shift to cover entire Westside (no coverage after 10pm til I could get out there). In my haste to go West GS4 folks may have difficulty locking the gates up sans my 2402 key. Other than that we had no major incidents and bumping the trains through went fairly smooth and with a hitch.
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I was positioned at the corner of 2^nd and Ankeny pre event for buses dropping off passengers. Everything went pretty smoothly. I noticed that most of the buses were pretty empty for the first hour.

After the event I was at 2^nd and Oak. Passengers started arriving at 10:30 steadily until 11:30. From 11:30 until 1:00 there were not that many riders.

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I asked the police a couple of times to instruct people not to sit on the curb in the bus’ path
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I was concerned that when the run started control was not informed therefore being allowed to hold trains at platforms. We had one or more trains off platforms and the operators informed control about the start of the race.   

There was a traffic concern on 1^st ave. Many cars driving down the tracks under the Morrison Bridge. Post event because of the forced right turn onto Pine the cars create two lanes one set on our tracks.  It was difficult to stop this and required more than one person. This action blocks the trains proceeding completely. 

According to my partner that works the ask me volunteer side he felt the shuttle and the sales were much better than last year. 
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I was on the corner of 5^th and Salmon bumping buses and trains through the intersection.  We had no major incidents happen, however it did take a bit to get communication going between all corners as to when to stop people to allow traffic through.  The G4 group seemed inexperienced and they didn’t seem sure of who they were to listen too.  The rail supervisor P basically called all the shots as to when to bump and stop the parade,  He did a fantastic job.  Road Supervisor B didn’t realize that we bump through the buses and Maxes, he thought the police did it.,  The police didn’t do much but stand around and watch the parade.  The G4 group we had, worked the crosswalks, stopping pedestrians, the two rail supervisors plus myself, worked the street to stop the parade and bump through the trains and buses.  We were under the impression the roads were to be closed at 6 pm, however we had traffic coming down Salmon until 6:45ish.  Another thing was having vehicle traffic coming up 5^th ave with the buses and trains.  That added more danger to the intersection.  I don ‘t know if is possible to stop vehicle traffic on fifth ave, but if at all possible it would be a good idea.  One other thing I noticed, in the past when I have done parades, people were not allowed to sit infront of the bike racks on the street, this year they did sit in front of them and it was hard to keep them out of the crosswalks.  People were also sitting along 5^th ave where the buses pull in to service the stops and again it was hard to keep their feet out of the streets.