TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Presidents Day 2017

(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)

6:43 AM: Good morning. It’s Presidents Day. Here are the transit/transportation plans for today:

—Metro is on a “reduced weekday” schedule

–No Water Taxi

—Sound Transit, regular weekday service

—Washington State Ferries, regular schedule

–Street parking in city neighborhoods with pay stations – no charge today

Also of note:

–No school all week for Seattle Public Schools (midwinter break) and those who follow its schedule

–Highland Park Way DID reopen last Friday evening, post-slide cleanup

9:48 AM: A late-commute crash on the approach to the elevated Viaduct on NB 99 has just cleared, SDOT says. Traffic stopped for a bit so tow trucks could be deployed.

Mark February 20, 2017 (9:11 am)

C-line moving unusually slow on 99 in stadium area. Looks like an accident ahead.

Robert February 20, 2017 (9:49 am)

99 a standstill. A wreck somewhere.

WSB February 20, 2017 (9:54 am)

See above. There was a crash on/by the rise to the elevated Viaduct. Cleared now but backup will linger a bit.

Diane February 20, 2017 (4:20 pm)

I called wsblog # twice this am during the standstill on northbound
99; I called first to ask if you all had any idea what was going on, since 99
was completely stopped for 15 mins and had no way of knowing if/when it would
start moving again; I’ve never seen traffic come to a complete stop like that
on the 99; it was backed up all the way to WS bridge, but no accident there;
after we got going again, there was no evidence of anything on the road, until
I got to a big accident all the way up in Belltown on Western; a big rig in
middle of Western and car up on sidewalk; at that point there was one lane
opened up on northbound Western; I called wsblog # again to report that after
getting to my Magnolia job

WSB February 20, 2017 (4:21 pm)

Yup, thanks, sorry, Patrick took your call at something like 9:45 around the time I finally saw the SDOT Twitter mention of the Viaduct crash. I missed their first mention an hour earlier, and it never was on the realtime 911 page; no injuries so SFD wasn’t dispatched. – TR

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