OVERNIGHT TRAFFIC ALERT: SW Spokane Street closure

After a couple of notes about traffic troubles in the low-bridge vicinity right now, we dug up this Metro alert about overnight work:

Overnight on Thursday, August 25, from 10:00 PM until 5:00 AM Friday morning, Metro routes 21 and the RapidRide C Line will be affected by the closure of westbound SW Spokane St between Delridge Way SW and SW Avalon Way, due to construction.

During this time, routes 21 and the Rapid Ride C Line heading toward West Seattle will travel instead via Delridge Way SW and SW Genesee St. All regular and temporary posted bus stops along the revised routing will be served.

The last time there was a closure like this, it was related to bridge work, but nothing was mentioned during today’s tour.

GW August 26, 2022 (5:57 pm)

Any update on why? It wasn’t lit up and I didn’t see any obvious work, just a single person standing by the barrier. Obviously the communication of the closure was very poor.

admyrl byrd August 27, 2022 (12:27 am)

Agree with the comment that the communication was poor. Cost me about 20 minutes after coming home from a very long travel day and very aggravating – it wasn’t well communicated. And would it kill them to put mobile message lights on the inbound routes from the south of the closure? Could’ve saved most of the time going up HP instead of WMW.

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