7:35 AM: If you’re headed this way via I-5 or Beacon Hill any time soon, you might not be able to get onto the westbound West Seattle Bridge for a bit – Seattle Police are shutting down access toward the east end so they can get that semi-truck safely off the bridge. Somehow, it wound up on the westbound bridge, facing east. This probably won’t take too long but we’re making note of it just in case.
8:01 AM: As expected, SPD made short work of this, and the bridge is fully open both ways.
WTH?!?
Sheesh! I could almost understand this happening with the old, ramp that turned north off of the Spokane St viaduct westbound, and dumped traffic onto northbound 4th S.
Even then, it has now been around 50 years since that ramp had been two-way, and even then, there was no eastbound east of there.
Mike
My guess is he was traveling north on Harbor avenue and his GPS told him to turn left at SW spokane St and the turn was made 100 ft too early.
that would be my guess. only thing “stopping” you from going up that ramp and turning left are lines painted on the road. if it was dark, wet, there wasn’t much traffic, and the driver wasn’t familiar, would be easy to do.
I agree that is the most likely scenario. Still, the driver would have had to fail to notice the double yellow line for about a block and then miss the two “Do Not Enter” signs at the divide in the ramp.
Ah, okay. That seems quite plausible. I’ve gone that route so seldom anymore for several years now, that even that 1st S ramp is “new” to me. Have probably traveled over it fewer than 5 times.
Mike
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