UPDATE: Spillover backups, bus reroutes after Harbor Island collision

12:54 PM: A collision earlier this morning on Harbor Island, at 16th/Klickitat, hasn’t been cleared yet, and now the resulting blockage is affecting the westbound low bridge and westbound Spokane Street Viaduct, according to an SDOT alert and a texter.

1 PM: Metro just sent an alert that it’s routing westbound buses off the low bridge as a result.

1:32 PM: Metro says it’s resumed regular bus routing. As for the rest of the backup, though, cameras show westbound traffic sluggish all the way to the east end of the Spokane Street Viaduct.

1:46 PM: Per scanner, all involved lanes are open but it’ll take a while for the backup to clear.

Tera February 14, 2022 (1:38 pm)

Reruote is cleared per Metro email

HarborIslandworker February 14, 2022 (2:20 pm)

I wonder what the procedure is for cleanup… when I drove by today after work they were hosing off the street. And while I drove by it got a bunch of diesel on the side of my truck..

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