Followup: New details of next weekend’s Highway 99/Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection closure

Two days after our first report that the next Highway 99/Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection closures are happening next weekend, WSDOT has new details today. Here’s the schedule:

First, a section of 99 on the NORTH end of downtown will be closed all next weekend:

·10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17 through 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 20: SR 99 will be closed between the Battery Street Tunnel and Valley Street for utility and paving work.

Then, it’s the previously announced closure between the West Seattle Bridge and the BSTunnel, daytime only, both days next weekend:

·6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18 and Sunday, Oct. 19: The SR 99 closure will be extended south to Spokane Street to allow WSDOT bridge inspectors to conduct their semiannual inspection of the viaduct. Preliminary inspection results will be released once they are available.

Two other notes:

*8 am-noon Saturday morning (October 18th) the closure will stretch to North 39th St. for a fundraising walk.

*And while all this is happening on Highway 99 – the 520 Bridge will be closed too (11 pm Friday night, Oct. 17th, until 5 am Monday, Oct. 20), which means I-5 and I-90 will be extra busy.

As always, traffic updates are a priority here, given the peninsula’s transportation challenges, so we’ll have extra weekend coverage during the closures.

1 Reply to "Followup: New details of next weekend's Highway 99/Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection closure"

  • west seattle hipster October 11, 2014 (7:17 pm)

    Thanks for the early heads up, good to know well in advance.

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