TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: School’s-out Wednesday watch

(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)

7:06 AM: Good morning – no school today in Seattle Public Schools and schools that follow its calendar, for the “day between semesters.” No traffic incidents reported in/from West Seattle so far.

7:29 AM: If you’ve noticed that we don’t have consistent camera views above … while SDOT has been upgrading many of the cameras, they also have been changing the web addresses without warning. This morning we discovered that the address where the “midspan” camera was yesterday – seattle.gov/trafficcams/images/WSB_Midspan_EW.jpg – was showing something not on or near the bridge. We’ve reported it to SDOT.

7:44 AM: From the scanner, a westbound lane of SW Alaska is blocked at 40th SW by a crash. No SFD callout so apparently no injuries.

Also, LB informs us in comments that the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth ferry route is back up to capacity, with M/V Kitsap returning overnight – VesselWatch confirms that Kitsap, Issaquah, and Sealth are now on the route.

P.S. We covered the first meeting of the Triangle Improvement Task Force in Fauntleroy on Monday.

7:54 AM: SDOT has fixed the bridge camera, so we’ll return the second bridge view to what’s above.

8:28 AM: SDOT says the Alaska/40th crash has cleared.

9:03 AM: SFD is responding to a crash reported in the 7300 block of Sylvan Way [map], just west of Delridge. Per scanner discussion, Sylvan is icy at that spot, so they’re calling in SDOT to help fix that.

4 Replies to "TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: School's-out Wednesday watch"

  • LB February 1, 2017 (7:38 am)

    The Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth route is back to normal capacity now (the Kitsap replaced the Tillikum either last night or this morning).  No service bulletin was issued though.

    • WSB February 1, 2017 (7:44 am)

      Thanks, LB!

  • PSPS February 1, 2017 (1:43 pm)

    It’s too bad they turned off the date/time stamp on the cameras.  Without them, we have no way of knowing if it’s showing an old image — a very common occurrence on traffic cams when they break.

    • WSB February 1, 2017 (2:01 pm)

      I know … that has tripped us up a couple times. But we’ll be asking about that too.

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