Though southbound Highway 99 was scheduled to be closed until late tonight, the closure has ended early. It’s now open again (as the “live” traffic-camera image above verifies)!
West Seattle, Washington
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Though southbound Highway 99 was scheduled to be closed until late tonight, the closure has ended early. It’s now open again (as the “live” traffic-camera image above verifies)!
Enjoy it while you can, especially bus riders.Metro has issued tentative new routing plans for the eventual 99 closure, and they are not friendly to West Seattle Metro riders.Travel times going way up.Link:https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/09/15/metro-service-change-more-service-again/
We’ll be writing about those next week, with the next service change coming up Saturday.
So frustrating. From what I’m reading the C line is going to travel on 4th to Prefontaine to get to 3rd heading north. The D and E line both stop at Prefontaine and Yesler but the C line will continue driving past this already configured rapid ride stop to stop 7 blocks away? Why bypass the rapid ride stops that the D and E both make on 3rd? You’d see a fair number of people get off at those stops who work south of Seneca I bet which would decrease the crowding inside the bus. If there are less people on the bus people can get on and off quicker.
I appreciate WS Blog updates. However, frustrated with the city for scheduling long closures, then reopening much eariler. This happens frequently. Don’t get me wrong, glad its early. The issue is we all go through great lengths to plan around these closures only to find out its open and our own workarounds weren’t necessary. The city should be more realistic with the closures and let us know the opening may be variable, then plan comunication updates too to keep all informed. One last thing, the reader boards with WS bridge times are nice and many rely on them when making commute decsions. When making other announcements it should flip btw messages and the commute times. Not giving commute times DOES impact the bridge times. Those signs are to help, so stop telling me 99 will be closed til Monday when you really will open early.. Now my Friday commute was long and my Sunday planning was unnecessary. Can’t win, huh?
Are you REALLY complaining that they finished ahead of schedule and reopened early? Or that they have a good record of doing so? REALLY?
WSC has a point, though I doubt there’s any way around it. Most inspection closures, I usually include a caveat in the previews that they almost always end early. These more-recent ones – which are for tunnel-transition-related work – haven’t always worked out that way, so I haven’t included a caveat. It’ll all be a moot point soon anyway! – TR
I’ve planned for disaster and purchased emergency kits and I’m just so annoyed I haven’t been able to use them in a giant earthquake or fire!
Yes,it is mildly annoying when planning around a closure proves unnecessary because the work finished early. But imagine what would happen if a closure went long? Can you really blame DOT for being conservative?
What’s more annoying is that KOMO 1000 was still reporting the viaduct as being closed as late as their 4:24 pm traffic report (on Sunday). I usually take the viaduct home from the South Lake Union area and having to take I-5 didn’t add much time, but I sure am surprised that they didn’t have this. Put KOMO on as I was leaving work because I wanted to get going and didn’t want to dig around on the web on my tiny phone for the info. Next time, I’m checking WSB!
That’s just lazy of them … while commenter WS Hipster beat me to the news, I was on my way at that time to checking the Twitter traffic accounts, and discovered the news had first appeared there at 10:11 am.
https://twitter.com/SDOTtraffic/status/1041374039183261696
WSDOT did not send e-mail announcing the reopening until hours later, but surely KOMO’s desk has somebody watching Twitter … TR
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