TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Thursday watch; weekend-alert change

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

7:12 AM: Good morning. So far, no incidents reported in/from West Seattle.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: Seattle Lutheran High School is back in session.

WEEKEND CLOSURES: Another reminder, I-5 and 99 closures Friday night through early Monday – here’s the info.

EARLY ALERT: SDOT has announced it’ll be painting on the high bridge early next Wednesday.

8:13 AM: Thanks to Teri for the tip. There’s a crash at Olson/2nd. Two SFD engines have responded.

8:43 AM: Two-truck crash per Terri, narrowing eastbound to 1 lane.

WEEKEND UPDATE: The I-5 ramp closure is postponed. 99 closure still on.

Fiwa Jcbbb August 23, 2018 (11:01 am)

Cue “Everywhere With Helicopter” by Guided By Voices”….Just got to work. Will someone explain what was the deal with what looked to be a Vietnam-era Huey with what I hope was a big camera ball on the front, hover-crawling about 50 feet off the south side of the West Seattle Bridge about 15 minutes ago? Surprised the FAA would allow that so close!

M August 23, 2018 (2:31 pm)

I was wondering the same thing.

Fiwa Jcbbb August 23, 2018 (4:06 pm)

Super close, couldn’t have been more than 100 feet from me, right at road level at the highest part of the bridge, on the South Side….about 10:30 am this morning. Really surprised no one’s commented, or that the FAA would allow them to fly that close. Saw the same helicopter hovering off the viaduct later in the day. Maybe it’s footage for a documentary about how Seattle ruined the commute of working people in the South and West parts of the city, all to make the waterfront nicer for rich people. Stay classist, Seattle.

WSB August 23, 2018 (5:33 pm)

We got some texts and a few e-mails asking about it, and we answered with “don’t know but we DO know there’s nothing breaking” … Even the scattered posts on Reddit haven’t yielded any info. There’s no one to call to ask “Um, hi, so there was this helicopter flying around the city, what WAS that?” (Updated since I started writing this response) Most plausible I’ve found so far, is that it was reportedly filming for the new Melissa McCarthy movie “Superintelligence.” Looking for a bit more verification before I feel comfortable writing a post about that!

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