Friday morning commute update: Bridge ramps all open again

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ORIGINAL 6:25 AM POST: We’re off to see which ramps, if any, are still closed on The Bridge as the up-to-eight-hour period of city drain-cleaning goes into its final stretch and eastbound “rush hour” approaches – the image above is the latest “live” picture from the city camera that looks eastward toward the ramp to 99. First word of what we find will turn up in the turquoise Twitter box (headed “What am I doing …”) on the right sidebar. Meantime, looks like some frosting on the cars outside – some potential rain-snow mix had been predicted overnight; nothing on the ground or road though, at least up here. 6:59 AM UPDATE: Just drove both directions; all ramps open, looks like the work’s all done. We saw one last city crew working on a drain in the inside westbound lane parallel with the Admiral exit when we were heading eastbound at 6:30, but even they were gone when we headed back west.

devnull January 2, 2009 (10:51 am)

I just drove the bridge eastbound and I’m wondering why SDOT did not use this closure to clean up all of the sand on the bridge? A couple of street sweepers to remove the sand would go a long way to prevent the sand from washing down the newly cleaned drains.

WSB January 2, 2009 (11:20 am)

These were SPU crews, not SDOT, for what it’s worth. I haven’t talked to SDOT yet today but given the dicey forecasts for the next day or two it may be a little premature to pick up the sand.

devnull January 2, 2009 (12:13 pm)

Sorry for getting SDOT mixed up with SPU. I’m baffled that Seattle did not utilize the closures to remove the sand, which is going to wash down the drains, at the same time they were cleaning out the drains. I keep the storm drain by my house clean by removing all of the leaves, sand and debris upstream of the drain so it does not flow into the storm drain.

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