TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Tuesday updates and alerts

(WS high/low bridges and Highway 99 views; more cams on the WSB Traffic page)
And we’re off! Welcome to Tuesday. Transportation-news notes for starters:

THE BUS SERVICE YOU’RE BUYING: On Monday afternoon, a news release went out saying that Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine are formally sealing the deal for three years and $120 million of bus service that’ll be funded by what you voted for last year. It didn’t get into specific routes/times, so we asked for documentation detailing those and hope to get it today. (Added Wednesday: Find it here.)

9:10 AM: Just in case you ran into this problem – Metro has responded to Maggie’s tweet and says they’ll check it out:

@kcmetrobus @westseattleblog ORCA card reader broken at stop 19790 (Morgan Junction, West Seattle). pic.twitter.com/KsxYXof5nR

— SudsyMaggie (@SudsyMaggie) January 13, 2015

4:56 PM: Water Taxi’s 4:45 and 5 pm runs have been canceled for mechanical trouble (thanks to Jana for the tip via Twitter, before the official alert!) – the county says it’ll resume at 5:15 pm from downtown.

beaglenut January 13, 2015 (7:53 am)

No mention of traffic? It was backed up way more than usual at 7:10 this morning. Any specific reason?

WSB January 13, 2015 (8:29 am)

No crashes or stalls reported any place we monitor …

beaglenut January 13, 2015 (8:32 am)

Thanks WSB. Maybe just bad luck everyone deciding to leave at the same time.

Chris January 13, 2015 (11:03 am)

@beaglenut On the news in LA that situation is a TMC alert…too many cars

beaglenut January 13, 2015 (12:09 pm)

@Chris – Don’t people know who I am??? Time is money people!

dsa January 13, 2015 (12:32 pm)

“… It didn’t get into specific routes/times, so we asked for documentation detailing those and hope to get it today….”
As she innocently keeps their feet to the fire. Thank you.

WSB January 14, 2015 (3:33 pm)

By the way, turns out the exact documentation was buried a couple levels under a link in a Metro “blog post” about this. I didn’t learn this until asking the King County Executive’s transportation adviser Chris Arkills today if HE could point me to the documentation, since the mayor’s spokesperson didn’t get back to me (aside from saying he’d try to find it). Direct link to a Word doc, which I’ll embed later if I can, things are still busy on a variety of fronts:
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http://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3443314&GUID=11109E68-585B-4704-9359-518B7B0392B7

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