TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: On-the-move notes for Tuesday; bridge crash

(Four WS-relevant views; more cams on the WSB Traffic page)
Good morning! While we watch the commute, two transportation-news notes to start with:

$900 MILLION TRANSPORTATION LEVY? Hear and talk about it tonight with city reps at West Seattle High School, 6-8 pm, the last of three meetings around the city. SDOT officials have stressed that this is a “draft” levy, pending both what they hear from citizen comments and also what the City Council decides to do before sending it to the ballot. Here’s what SDOT told us is in the “draft” for West Seattle. P.S. Whether you’re going tonight or not, take the survey!

‘BERTHA’ WATCH: The Highway 99 tunneling machine’s cutterhead made it up and out of the repair-access pit by mid-evening; WSDOT’s contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners decided to leave it hanging there overnight. so today they’ll finish the move to the spot where they will work on it. (P.S. You can see a current image, as well as past images and time-lapse, here.)

8:05 AM: Still a relatively quiet commute, at least in our area and outbound from here. Slow going in the rain but nothing out of the ordinary.

8:34 AM: In comments, ECC mentions the 21X being off-schedule earlier.

9:14 AM: SFD crews are being dispatched to a multi-vehicle crash on the eastbound bridge entry from Fauntleroy. Injuries are reported.

10:01 AM: As you can see in the top-right camera view, the Fauntleroy leg of the bridge is backed up as a result. The scene itself is not in camera range.

(Added: Thanks to Joel for video of the crash scene)
10:06 AM: Police have now closed the bridge at the 35th/Fauntleroy entrance.

UPDATE: All lanes subject to temporary closure at 35th Ave SW & Fauntleroy Ave due to the collision on W Seattle Br pic.twitter.com/bTv2nNvueE

— seattledot (@seattledot) March 31, 2015

10:28 AM: Per scanner, the bridge is clear and now reopening.

East Coast Cynic March 31, 2015 (8:26 am)

For out of the ordinary, the downtown bound 21X that I normally catch near Morgan did not show up at its’ approximate 7:35am time (and I suspect the 21X that comes after it did not show up either or was very late). Had to take the local to Avalon where I caught a Rapid Ride to downtown that was slam packed–the driver tried to discourage boarding. A few of us sneaked on. It unfortunately passed and stranded passengers at the Avalon stop.

WSB March 31, 2015 (8:34 am)

Thanks for the report. We are on all the Metro alert lists and didn’t get anything about that route or anything else in this area today so perhaps some anomaly.

david March 31, 2015 (9:39 am)

Major backup on eb bridge……not sure wassup…..

david March 31, 2015 (9:48 am)

Ambulance just got by…..still don’t know what’s up….

WSB March 31, 2015 (9:49 am)

Hi, we added a line to the traffic watch above a bit ago, there’s a crash reported somewhere on the approach from Fauntleroy.

Meredith March 31, 2015 (10:27 am)

The crash is juuust around the curve from where the squad cars are in the image above, which is probably why they closed it off – you can’t entirely see that it’s there in advance, but for the emergency lights. It involved at least three or four vehicles, one of which (a sedan) was wedged under the other (an SUV, I think) with its airbag deployed and deflated, when I passed just before 10am. Police and fire were treating at least one alert subject at the scene.