West Seattle road work update #2: 16th SW project start date set

We received e-mail this morning asking for an update on when the 16th SW road-rebuilding work will start north of South Seattle Community College. In our last update in late May, SDOT had projected “late July.” Checking with SDOT’s Marybeth Turner today, we learned the city has just set the start date for the week of July 20th; people who live in the area are getting flyers today. See the entire flyer here – it includes the detour map shown above, which will affect northbound traffic only, according to SDOT. (The red stretch is the “project” zone, where SDOT says there will be some “minor widening” as well as “reconstruction” work.) The official project page on the city website – just updated today – is here. If you haven’t seen that stretch of badly pitted road, by the way, even Google Street View captures it (likely photographed sometime last year):


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6 Replies to "West Seattle road work update #2: 16th SW project start date set"

  • Steph July 8, 2009 (3:44 pm)

    YAY! I am so tired of having my kidneys feeling battered after traveling this stretch of road. Yay!

  • hammerhead July 8, 2009 (6:34 pm)

    thank god.

  • rainycity1 July 8, 2009 (8:00 pm)

    High time! I was wondering what it would take to get that section fixed.

  • steven July 9, 2009 (8:37 am)

    I have been complaining about this road forever. I bet if the if the mayor lived on my street it would have been fixed years ago.

  • Julie R July 13, 2009 (1:51 pm)

    is there any information on how long this work will take?

  • WSB July 13, 2009 (2:42 pm)

    If you follow the link above to the project page, you will see that info: Six to eight weeks.
    http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/16th_ave_pave.htm

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