West Seattle traffic alert: Truck trouble at Harbor/Avalon

July 30, 2010 at 11:23 am | In West Seattle news, West Seattle traffic alerts | 10 Comments

Thanks to Kindree for the photo and this traffic report: “The onramp to bridge from Avalon is blocked by a lumber truck. He took the corner too tight and got stuck.” The photos and note were sent half an hour ago but just came through – so we’ll be heading that way to see if this is cleared yet. (P.S. If you’re trying to recall “hasn’t this happened before?” – here’s the previous stuck truck in our archives, last October.) 11:48 AM UPDATE: Ramp clear, truck gone.

10 Comments

  1. It may be some sort of optical illusion, but that looks like the longest flat-bed trailer in the entire world; I’m trying to imagine a scenario in which that much lumber would need to be transported from Harbor Ave to, well, anywhere…

    Maybe there’s a sawmill at Alki that I’ve just never noticed before.

    Comment by JAT — 11:36 am July 30, 2010 #

  2. @JAT – no kidding, I was thinking the same thing when I was there.

    Comment by Kindree — 11:43 am July 30, 2010 #

  3. These types of odd loads come from Terminal 5, off the Westwood ships usually.

    Comment by the old man — 11:45 am July 30, 2010 #

  4. Yup Suck

    Comment by LMA — 11:50 am July 30, 2010 #

  5. This is yet another reason why the King Count Water Taxi is so valuable! The bus that I was sitting on when this happened wasn’t going to be moving for a long time. So a bunch of us jumped on the free shuttle (Route 773) down to the water taxi and were downtown in no time.

    Comment by Kindree — 11:50 am July 30, 2010 #

  6. I saw 2 of these coming up Admiral, westbound, toward California earlier this week (can’t remember the specific day). And it’s not an optical illusion, they are really long!

    Comment by mike — 12:10 pm July 30, 2010 #

  7. When Boeing does this, they use a steerable cab in the aft truck/axle (kind of like a ladder truck of the fire dept). There’s a guy sitting reclined between the rear wheels who can steer into tighter radius corners. There are a couple of surplus ones under the 1st AV Bridge, Michigan off-ramp. They need to get a couple of those!

    Comment by 22blades — 8:20 pm July 30, 2010 #

  8. 22blades, the first time I saw one of those was probably nearly 30 years ago now.

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    I’d never even heard of such a rig, and was on southbound 405 in the Kirkland/Bellvue area. I was a delivery driver at the time, and was driving a little Chevy Chevette, so was not sitting much higher than trailer guy.

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    Talk about startling! Either he somehow just caught the corner of my eye, or I just glanced over casually, as drivers so often do, and it was like WTF?!? What’s that guy doing underneath that trailer?!? :lol:

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    Mike

    Comment by miws — 9:59 pm July 30, 2010 #

  9. Hey Mike, you’re dating us! I was driving a Chevy LUV pickup at the time. :-) I guess “B” doesn’t make Wing Spars around here anymore…

    Comment by 22blades — 4:56 am July 31, 2010 #

  10. 22blade – They sure do make wing spars around here – down in Fredrickson (south of Puyallup), and they consume (put them into wings) every day up in Everett. The smaller ones for the 737 – that don’t require the extra long transporation – get delivered from Fredrickson to Renton – where they’re pumping out over 31 airplanes (62 wings, 124 spars) a month.

    Comment by Eddie — 12:51 pm July 31, 2010 #

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