Portland’s city-owned parking garages remain open and on-street parking enforcement crews are still patrolling despite Gov. Kate Brown’s stay-at-home ordered issued Monday.

John Brady, a Bureau of Transportation spokesman, said the city agency is “grateful for the clarity” of Brown’s executive order.

While parking enforcement officers are still pounding the pavement, Brady said they are not focusing on every scofflaw. “Keeping the city safe means preventing parking in spots designated for people with disabilities by people who are able-bodied or in front of fire hydrants,” he said of the enforcement strategy, “as well as other violations that create hazards or inhibit the flow of traffic and the delivery of goods.”

Transportation workers who can work remotely are and have been since March 16. But, Brady said, maintenance crews, parking enforcement officers and traffic signal technicians are still working “in order to perform critical work necessary to keep our transportation system running.” He didn’t have immediate figures about how many employees are working remotely.

“They are observing social distance guidance,” he said in an email.

The city has some 4,000 parking spaces in multiple Smart Park garages around downtown and Northwest Portland.

Brady said those garages are less busy than usual. The Southwest 1st Avenue and Jefferson Street garage is about 60% full, Brady said, but others have more parking availability.

On-street parking is tougher to estimate because the city hasn’t done any counts, he said.

The bureau, which has dozens of construction projects in various stages of planning and design, including ones to speed up buses and transit through congested streets downtown, has canceled public meetings to discuss those projects.

Transportation officials took further action Tuesday to limit the number of people permitted on the Portland Aerial Tram, which connects the Southwest Waterfront to Oregon Health & Science University on Marquam Hill.

Operators now allow only 10 people on board per ride. The two tram cabins have a total capacity of 79 people.

-- Andrew Theen; atheen@oregonian.com; 503-294-4026; @andrewtheen

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