ROAD/BRIDGE WORK, TRAFFIC, TRANSIT: Thursday 12/10 watch

6:07 AM: It’s Thursday, December 10th, the 262nd morning without the West Seattle Bridge.

SPEAKING OF BRIDGES

Low Bridge: Camera installation today, which means some lane closures 9 am-3 pm.

South Park Bridge: A second inspection closure is planned for tonight, 10:30 pm-6 am. For bus riders, here’s the Metro advisory:

From Wednesday evening, December 9, through Friday morning, December 11, overnight only from 10:30 PM until 6:00 AM each night, Metro Route 60 will be rerouted in both directions due to the closure of the South Park Bridge for routine operational system testing. During this time, Route 60 heading toward Broadway or Westwood Village will travel via alternate roadways and will not serve the stops on 14th Av S at S Cloverdale St and the stops on 16th Av S at East Marginal Way S.

Terminal 5 Bridge: The Port is live-load testing, continuing today. This weekend, that will affect part of West Marginal Way. Details, with maps and times, are here.

OTHER ROAD (ETC.) WORK

(added) California/Raymond: Utility work today, possibly related to water outage scheduled for tonight. Raymond is closed at California. (Thanks to WSB sponsor Ventana Construction for the tip!)

Delridge project: Here’s what’s planned for this week, including closing SW Thistle between Delridge and 20th (which hadn’t happened yet as of Wednesday night).

TRANSIT

Metro – Regular schedule.

Water Taxi – Back on regular schedule after last weekend’s dock work.

CHECK TRAFFIC BEFORE YOU GO

West Marginal Way/Highland Park Way:

Highland Park Way/Holden:

The 5-way intersection (Spokane/West Marginal/Delridge/Chelan):

Restricted-daytime-access (open to all 9 pm-5 am) low bridge (note: camera ticketing will NOT start today):

The main detour route across the Duwamish River, the 1st Avenue South Bridge (map) . Here are two cameras:

The other major bridge across the river – the South Park Bridge (map) – see the closure advisory above. Here’s the nearest camera:

Going through South Park? Don’t speed. (Same goes for the other detour-route neighborhoods, like Highland Park, Riverview, and South Delridge.)

Checking for bridges’ marine-traffic openings? See the @SDOTBridges Twitter feed.

You can see all local traffic cams here; locally relevant cameras are also shown on this WSB page.

Trouble on the roads/paths/water? Let us know – text (but not if you’re driving!) 206-293-6302.

4 Replies to "ROAD/BRIDGE WORK, TRAFFIC, TRANSIT: Thursday 12/10 watch"

  • AB83 December 10, 2020 (11:17 am)

    I’m noticing a lot of personal vehicles crossing the lower bridge while these cameras are being put up today I thought there was going to be a flagger out there detouring people that do not have authorization to use the low bridge Or are these the people that are authorized to use the low BridgeI thought no personal vehicles were allowed

    • WSB December 10, 2020 (11:48 am)

      If there is a flagger, their job is not to detour unauthorized vehicles, but to manage lane restrictions needed for the work.

  • never-ending bridge drama December 10, 2020 (2:01 pm)

    Has anyone heard any updates to the timeline for the 1st Avenue Bridge work/lane reductions? I’m hoping to take some time off work for the NB portion.

    • WSB December 10, 2020 (2:05 pm)

      I have already followed up on that. They don’t have a date yet, bids were to be opened yesterday and contract awarded likely next week.

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