TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Last Monday in August; see who’s going back to school

(SDOT MAP with travel times/video links; is the ‘low bridge’ closed? LOOK HERE)

(Click any view for a close-up; more cameras on the WSB Traffic page)

7:02 AM: Good morning – no incidents reported in/from West Seattle so far.

BACK TO SCHOOL: Holy Rosary (4142 42nd SW) starts today, and it’s the first full week for Seattle Lutheran High School (4100 SW Genesee), which started last Friday. Here’s our weekend report on this week’s other starts.

SCHOOL BUS DRIVER PREPS: Thanks to Al for the tip – starting tomorrow, bus drivers for Seattle Public Schools will be out practicing their routes.

ROAD WORK REMINDER: As previewed last night, the Spokane Street paving/safety project – mostly east of the low bridge – continues this week, and includes ongoing bicycle/pedestrian-path detours.

8:25 AM: Couple of Seattle Fire responses on arterials right now – might or might not affect your commute, but we’ll mention them anyway: There’s a medical response at Delridge/Thistle, and a “bark fire” response in the 6500 block of 35th SW, which would be south of Morgan. Each has just one engine assigned, so not major.

8:47 AM: Just got a text about a crash on the eastbound West Seattle Bridge near the 4th Avenue exit – but SDOT says via Twitter that it’s already cleared. No injuries, apparently, as SFD was not dispatched – no callout on the 911 log.

Robert August 29, 2016 (8:54 am)

Who controls the sight lines of these cameras?? Obviously someone in the neighborhood is needs to know how long the wait is for the drive thru line at Taco Time

WSB August 29, 2016 (9:06 am)

SDOT’s traffic center downtown has the controls. They moved the 35th/Fauntleroy camera last week for the short-lived gas-leak situation at 37th and Oregon.

Carole August 29, 2016 (12:37 pm)

At Fauntleroy, where the two left lanes cross Alaska to go south, the right lane of those two is blocked right at the point. No advance warning, and impossible to see until you are almost on top of it, particularly with construction trucks to your left blocking sight lines. Also, exiting TJ ground level parking lot onto Fauntleroy, the sign says NO LEFT TURN. People, please, don’t try to turn left there and block multiple lanes while doing so. It takes hardly any time to obey the sign and circle around the block to the light on Oregon.

Aaron August 29, 2016 (1:12 pm)

As I followed and passed one of the cars involved in that 8:20 something crash on the WSB, I saw the driver repeatedly using her phone to take photos of the Seattle skyline while she was driving. I’m not terribly surprised she rear-ended another car. I hope everyone is OK, and the distracted driver remembers not to mess with her phone while driving in the future.

Seriously, just Google photos of Seattle. Better photographers than you have taken pictures of the city, without risking lives to do it.

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