Traffic alert: Alaskan Way Viaduct weekend-closure time change

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(WSDOT June 3rd photo of south-end Viaduct construction work)
For your Friday night planning, if you’re going to be off-peninsula: Both the Alaskan Way Viaduct project website’s home page and the city’s weekly roundup of road-construction traffic alerts are now showing a change in the start time of this weekend’s Viaduct closure (for south-end construction work): 5 am Saturday, instead of 11 pm Friday night. (Ending time still set for 5 am Monday; the northbound section will reopen later Saturday from the stadiums northward, but that still means no access from the West Seattle Bridge or 99 south of downtown.)

Wren June 11, 2011 (11:58 pm)

Hello

As a new comer to the area I’m not sure exactly what this means. Does it primarily effect people traveling to and from downtown? I was planning to go “off peninsula” to Ballard tomorrow. How do I do this?

thanks. wren