5:12 PM: Just in from King County: The West Seattle Water Taxi is canceled for the rest of this evening.
5:32 PM UPDATE: Now the county says never mind, they’re putting the Rachel Marie into service and the WS WT will resume as of 5:45.
Yes, I just finished updating that here and in our social-media channels. Odd of them to call it off for the night and then say “never mind” but well, I hope it’s good news for commuters.
It seemed a little odd to us because literally five minutes before the alert came in, we had driven by Seacrest and saw the Spirit of Kingston coming in to dock. I almost suggested we pull in because I’ve been working on a story updating the WT’s big picture (new boats, etc.) and thought “we can get a new photo,” but then we got a text about something else and had to keep driving …
was the ‘text about something else’ related to whatever it was that had all of Harbor ave blocked off near Salty’s this afternoon? lots of police cars, big back up, etc?
No. Heard from absolutely no one on any sort of Harbor blockage and it’s not on the 911 log so nothing with injuries, but there is a mention in the SPD auto-tweets, only “accident investigation.” Pretty much zero chances of finding out about that after the fact if it wasn’t major, unfortunately.
I was out sailing at the time when the Spirit of Kingston was emitting significant smoke out of the exhaust in the middle of Elliott Bay. She slowed down but eventually the smoke cleared and she continued her run to West Seattle… my guess is they had an engine problem and called off the subsequent run, then managed to fix the problem. Pure speculation on my part.
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