TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: December’s first Friday; weekend reminders

(SDOT MAP with travel times/video links; is the ‘low bridge’ closed? LOOK HERE)

(Click any view for a close-up; more cameras on the WSB Traffic page)

6:52 AM: New trouble on the northbound 1st Avenue S. Bridge – half an hour after an early-morning crash cleared, a new one is partly blocking the right lane, according to WSDOT.

HOLIDAY EVENT REMINDERS: Tonight SW Myrtle will be closed for the block east of 35th SW during the Our Lady of Guadalupe “Light Up the Night” celebration, approximately 6-8 pm … Saturday night, the West Seattle Junction Tree Lighting and Night Market will close SW Alaska between California and 42nd SW approximately 3-9 pm (the market is 4-8 pm, tree lighting starts 4:30 pm). That means a reroute for RapidRide C Line – here’s the info from Metro.

7:09 AM: WSDOT says the 1st Avenue S. Bridge is clear again.

7:48 AM: After Kathleen pointed out on Twitter that the bus she had been waiting for never showed, Metro sent an after-the-fact alert & tweet:

Transit Alert – Rt 55 due to leave California Av SW & SW Atlantic St at 7:18 AM did not operate this morning.

— King County Metro (@kcmetrobus) December 2, 2016

8:45 AM: No new trouble for today but a reminder that snow MIGHT be a factor for Monday’s commute, per the National Weather Service …we’ll be tracking it all weekend and if it does happen, coverage will start extra early.

waikikigirl December 2, 2016 (8:13 am)

Here’s a pic on the 1st AVE. Bridge looking thru my windshield (stopped) from 530am-605am that is how long I sat in this mess. :( then once you got up onto the bridge itself it was smooth sailing…must had gotten the wreck out of the way.

newnative December 2, 2016 (9:31 am)

I saw the back up on the ramp to 1st Ave S from the Westbound WSB at 7:00-7:10, it was also slow to get on the NB99.

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