West Seattle road work update: California SW resurfacing finished

As of 2:30 pm – a couple hours ahead of schedule – the California SW resurfacing between SW Findlay and SW Graham is finished, and the heavy equipment’s gone; just some sign pickup left to be done. If you haven’t driven it yet, here’s what they did: Scraped off the old asphalt on the travel lanes and put down new asphalt; the center turn lane and outside parking zones were left as they were. Rather than big jobs like last year’s Fauntleroy Way overhaul, this year we’ve seen smaller spot-paving/resurfacing work, a block or two or three at a time

Silly Goose December 15, 2011 (4:01 pm)

I am curious why they skipped a fews blocks of rough road way in between their last paving and this one. Why not do it all right the first time around instead of always back tracking, makes no sense to me, and I truely believe if the city would use concrete instead of asphalt it would last for many many years and we could catch up to all of the pot holes and bad street surfaces!

WSB December 15, 2011 (4:20 pm)

Explained in earlier coverage – these smaller jobs are limited to $90,000 of work at a time, and apparently this is as far as they could stretch that. I don’t have the exact reason why this stretch but there’s been a significant amount of construction, and the accompanying road-tearing-up, in the southernmost block (north of Graham), so I suspect that had something to do with it.

chas redmond December 15, 2011 (5:18 pm)

How about a timeline for when they will repaint the lane lines – folks are now abusing the temp paint lines and queueing up for the left-turn at Edmunds as much as a block south. Please ask SDOT when that will happen – it didn’t take but one day to restripe Avalon when they wanted to create a BAT lane.

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