TRAFFIC, TRANSIT, WEATHER: Post-holiday-season 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)

6:56 AM: Good morning! The holidays are over, school’s back in session, and it’s in the 20s this morning – watch out for ice, especially outside the major arterials; “Near- or sub-freezing temperatures will continue through Thursday,” the National Weather Service says. Traffic-wise, no incidents reported in/from West Seattle so far.

THANK YOU: As we all get back up to speed for the still-new year, we want to thank you in advance for your help during what’s now our 10th year of community-collaborative news coverage via WSB … if you see traffic/transportation trouble that your West Seattle neighbors should know about and we’re not already on it, please let us know *if and when you can do so safely/legally* … if you’re a passenger, or when you get to where you’re going. (We monitor many infostreams but some things just don’t show up in any of them.)

7:39 AM: Via Twitter, @dneidorff reports seeing a C Line bus being towed from the Westwood area.

White Centaur January 3, 2017 (7:28 am)

Can anyone share the status of the Olson-Meyers Way hill to get on 509 – is it icy?

DR January 3, 2017 (8:32 am)

It was fine at 6:30 when I went down

just took it slow.

David January 3, 2017 (8:42 am)

Three SPD vehicles at the 35th & Avalon rapid ride stop. Looks like they’re interviewing someone. This is making it difficult for busses getting in and out. Autos should yield to busses trying to reenter traffic. Of course most of them don’t.

cjboffoli January 3, 2017 (9:05 am)

Wouldn’t the WSB be in its 11th year now? My first contribution (a photo of an eagle flying over the Junction) was published on January 4, 2007. So tomorrow is the end of ten years for me and the start of the 11th. And I’m sure I was a reader for many months before, as I moved to West Seattle in September of 2006 and was already hearing from neighbors about this marvelous source of news and information.

WSB January 3, 2017 (9:12 am)

We didn’t go commercial until fall 2007, and I didn’t start working on it fulltime until after quitting TV 12/9/07, so that’s why we consider this year 10. The site itself went live December 2005.

Charles January 3, 2017 (9:41 am)

There was a construction crew connected to a fire hydrant on Oregon (off Delridge) with a leaky hose across the road. The water from the leak was freezing immediately, making a steep hill icy that wasn’t before. This is the hill that the 125 goes up toward the college. It is really dangerous and irresponsible of them.

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