TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Pre-Thanksgiving Tuesday

(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)

7:11 AM: Good morning – no incidents in/from West Seattle so far this morning.

STADIUM-ZONE ALERT TONIGHT: 7 pm at CenturyLink Field, soccer playoffs – Sounders FC vs. Colorado Rapids.

Rb November 22, 2016 (8:00 am)

I could not find any info about the water taxi working late for the game. Do you guys know anything about it?

WSB November 22, 2016 (8:41 am)

No, they don’t do that in the fall/winter season.
- Rb November 22, 2016 (11:00 am)
  
  thank you

smittytheclown November 22, 2016 (8:19 am)

So now even the Tuesday before Thanksgiving is heavy traffic? Do people not take vacations any more or have we just reached a tipping point to where those things don’t even have an impact?

“Maybe” the Friday after Thanksgiving will still be a great day to commute!

Ugh!

newnative November 22, 2016 (8:57 am)

I have never heard of widespread use of Tuesday as a holiday. Wednesday and Friday yes.
- smittytheclown November 22, 2016 (10:21 am)
  
  I just meant lots of people use to leverage the 4-day Holiday into a 9-day vacation by taking Mon-Wed off as “vacation days” – thus getting 9 days off for the price of 3. A good use of vacation time if you ask me.
  
  You use to “feel” that lighter load the entire week of Thanksgiving.
  
  Obviously I didn’t do it this year either.
  - JC November 22, 2016 (10:38 am)
    
    True, however, some folks probably probably don’t have vacation time or some employers are not closed on Friday’s so in that case, it would be 4 days vacation and on day holiday. I’ve worked at Boeing since 1998 and I have never taken the Thanksgiving week off except last year when I had surgery. I planned it so I only took two days vacation time (Tues and Weds) and then Boeing is off Thurs-Friday and I was back at work the following Monday.
    - newnative November 22, 2016 (11:26 am)
      
      we close a few hours early on the day before major holiday and it’s awkward for us bus riders because the commuter buses/sounder trains don’t start that early. So, it can take over an hour to get home.

East Coast Cynic November 22, 2016 (3:33 pm)

The 21X was lighter than usual and the traffic from my optics on the bus seemed a little lighter. But I was busing between 7:30am and 8am. Maybe it got back to normal after 8am?