If you’ve wondered about the West Seattle Bridge lights …

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One more story about lights on one of the longest nights of the year: Several people have e-mailed to point out another chronic streetlight outage on the high bridge. Those lights ar the responsibility of Seattle City Light, and they’re certainly on the utility’s radar, spokesperson Scott Thomsen tells WSB. City Light is working with SDOT, he says, to come up with a traffic-control plan for repairs, which he says SDOT usually wants to see done at night or on the weekend to reduce traffic impact: “We are asking for a lane closure with a blinking, moving SDOT truck following our yellow City Light truck as the repairs are made. They whole job should take about 5 hours once we get the crew in place.” As for a timeline, he says that depends on how much longer it takes SDOT to review/approve the plan.

Pete December 17, 2018 (10:12 pm)

Okay, fix it tonight, between 11pm-4am…Or let’s make excuses.

chemist December 17, 2018 (11:13 pm)

I vote for overnight repair and using LED lights to reduce the maintenance intervals.

Edsecutive December 18, 2018 (2:00 am)

Might as well string the whole thing with Christmas lights while they’re at it.

David December 18, 2018 (6:43 am)

Maybe The City could repaint the lane stripes while they are at it

AmyB December 18, 2018 (3:56 pm)

YES! I commute the bridge at about 6 am and it’s scary in the dark & rain.

Trickycoolj December 18, 2018 (7:27 am)

How about something more permanent this time? Seems like whole stretches of the bridge go out all the time.

Eddie December 18, 2018 (8:12 am)

Thought they did several closures for Light Bulb installation/changeout (LED’s were done a while back BTW) in the last several months. I did notice it was pitch black taking the 99 NB ramp last Tuesday night and wondered what was up with the new lights not working. I didn’t see anything on “The Blog” so I figured I must have imagined it.

coffeedude December 18, 2018 (8:40 am)

Why is it that the bridge lights seem to have this issue every few years?

Chris December 18, 2018 (8:48 am)

The eastbound side lights were on when I went by this morning about 5:30… they were out yesterday morning.

rpo December 18, 2018 (10:48 pm)

I just drove over at 10 pm, and the south side of the bridge was off still.
- WSB December 19, 2018 (12:01 am)
  
  I had to drive across the bridge tonight and to be specific, the outage starts just east of the crest.

Apotheosis December 18, 2018 (8:58 am)

The lights under the bridge along the bike/walking path are also out. Looks like several utility covers were pulled up and something taken from inside them. It’s been several weeks but I saw the utility had been out and marked the poles recently.

Mj December 18, 2018 (1:28 pm)

SDoT will schedule the lighting replacement for Monday January 14th, 2019!

WSB December 18, 2018 (1:35 pm)

Not funny but that was actually the question I asked SCL, whether the repair is likely to happen before Viadoom…

Kjb December 19, 2018 (5:56 pm)

It is very dangerous on SB 99 with many street lights out in the Matson area. There is a huge puddle that causes hydroplaning and with the lights out, you cant see it coming. Thus is the second winter that these lights have been out. Wondering who we can contact to get them fixed!