(SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: SDOT confirms the work finished way ahead of schedule & the bridge is fully open for the rest of the weekend. Next closure is scheduled Tuesday night)
11:22 PM: Just in case you forgot – or missed the past week-plus of warnings – the west end of the West Seattle Bridge is now closed, and scheduled to stay that way until just before midnight Sunday night. It’s the section known as the Fauntleroy Expressway, and it’s getting earthquake-safety upgrades, with closures required many recent nights so that the bridge deck can be raised a bit, with new quake-resistance pads slipped in. (See our mid-January story for a closer look at the work that’s been under way many recent nights.)
Here’s how it’ll affect you between now and the reopening on Sunday:
If you’re heading westbound on the high bridge, you will have to exit at Delridge. You can still get to the Admiral/Alki/Harbor Avenue area if you follow the signs to SW Spokane and head west under The Bridge from there.
If you’re heading eastbound and need to get onto the bridge, Admiral and Delridge are OK, according to advance info from SDOT. 35th/Fauntleroy is closed. If you’re headed toward the bridge on Fauntleroy, you’ll be pointed toward Avalon. So in either direction, give yourself some extra time. Again, this is scheduled to last until late Sunday night (we’ll let you know if it ends sooner). More Fauntleroy Expressway overnight closures are expected next week – but SDOT says that’s likely the last week for them, since the project is ahead of schedule.
8:22 AM: The bridge is currently OPEN, despite SDOT’s week-plus warning that it would be closed till late tonight. We are checking with them to see if it’s closing again later or if the work finished REALLY early.
8:45 AM: Just heard back from Marybeth Turner at SDOT – who confirms that the contractor finished before 7 am, and that’s the end of it for this weekend.
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