Road-work alert updates: 35th SW paving next two days; Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection closures October 18-19

Two road-work alerts we’ve discovered since today’s traffic watch:

35TH SW: Big lighted signboard advises road work is scheduled for 35th SW between Cambridge and Roxbury tomorrow and Friday, 7 am-7 pm. No SDOT announcement otherwise, so we have a message out to find out more, and will add the details when we get them. 2:24 PM update: SDOT says it’s paving and is about to send out this announcement:

Paving crews from the Seattle Department of Transportation will work on 35th Avenue Southwest between Southwest Roxbury and Southwest Cambridge streets on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 9 and 10. They will grind and repave the asphalt part of the street. (The street is part concrete and part asphalt.) One lane will remain open in each direction. Work hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SDOT tells us there is also a tentative plan, weather permitting, to pave 35th between Morgan and Juneau the week of October 21st.

(back to original report) ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT INSPECTION CLOSURES: Found in the fine print of the weekly Construction Lookahead, the next Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection closures are penciled in for 6 am-6 pm Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19.

Tickingtimebags October 8, 2014 (2:52 pm)

Nice! Hopefully they’ll do some areas in between soon. Doing the left-right dogleg to cross 35th while going west on Holden is an adventure filled with sideways lurching and molar clacking in most cars…

old timer October 8, 2014 (3:00 pm)

That Morgan/Juneau area – isn’t that part of what is supposedly being studied for ‘safety improvements’?
Will this paving incorporate any outcome of whatever study may have been performed?
Will any future study outcome negate or conflict with what they will be doing?
Just wondering if the left hand is attached to the same SDOT body as the right hand.

LyndaB October 8, 2014 (11:18 pm)

I’m glad to hear about the paving on 35th. It’s great they’re trimming the tree branches, too!

WSoriginal October 15, 2014 (12:06 pm)

I didn’t see info on what they are replacing it with. WSB do we know what they will be replacing it with, asphalt or concrete?

Hopefully concrete, while more expensive, it weathers better over time. Asphalt deteriorates faster due to the seasons – freezing/warming. If you notice the asphalt “patch” Southbound 35th right lane as you pass Alaska St, recently patched with asphalt, give it another two or three months and they’ll be out to patch it again.

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