THURSDAY: West Seattle Bridge updates, W. Marginal Way proposals @ Community Task Force

(West Seattle Bridge as seen tonight on SDOT camerq)

The West Seattle Bridge Community Task Force continues meeting online monthly to hear and talk about the bridge and associated projects, and its next meeting is scheduled for 4-6 pm tomorrow (Thursday, February 11th). Here’s the agenda; it includes an update on progress toward repairs, a look at low-bridge access, and a review of the proposals for West Marginal Way SW north of the Duwamish Tribe Longhouse. That will include the attendees breaking into two discussion groups; the link for watching the meeting including group A is here, and the link for group B is here. If you can’t watch the meeting, but are interested in what’s happening with repair planning, SDOT published this update last week. They’re still projecting “mid-2022” for reopening, spokesperson Ethan Bergerson told WSB this week, “and we will be able to give a more certain schedule update once the contractor is selected and the project reaches a further stage in design.”

Flo B February 11, 2021 (11:33 am)

WSB. You might have said, and i missed it. Once the go ahead to fix the high bridge was made why did SDOT not hire a contractor??

WSB February 11, 2021 (3:21 pm)

Because they needed to get the repair design (which is being done by ongoing consultant WSP) part of the way done first.

Idk February 11, 2021 (2:34 pm)

No idea why they didn’t get a head start reasonably earlier. They could have started at least with permit processing before the wrapping was complete.

RandomDude February 11, 2021 (5:45 pm)

To get a permit you have to detail what your permitting so a lot of things have to be figured out first. It’s also pretty hard to bid a job, especially one of that scale without approved plans or a pretty solid plan set. It’s an insane amount of risk for a contractor to bid a job not knowing the full scope in detail in writing. I want the bridge back yesterday but this process is going to be long unfortunately.