West Seattle, Washington
22 Friday
If you’ve been thinking about Sunday dinner at Azuma Sushi in The Junction, you have two more chances, tonight and next Sunday. As of May 1st, Azuma will be closed on Sundays. And that means a regular day off for this mainstay:
That’s Harry Tu, co-proprietor and sushi chef for Azuma, who has worked seven days a week since the restaurant opened in 2000. We photographed him while lunching there on Saturday, after getting a tip from a patron about the notices posted throughout the restaurant and on the menus:
Harry’s standards are exacting, we’re told, and so even though Sundays have been a half-day at Azuma, open just for dinner, he’s still worked a full day, coming in early to prepare the fish and vegetables with which his creations are made. But starting two weeks from today, he and everyone at Azuma will get Sundays off. Their hours are staying the same otherwise.
(The ospreys are back from South America and nesting, reports Mark Wangerin, who shared this image and the one at the end of this roundup)
Today is much quieter than Saturday – but the calendar isn’t entirely empty:
PEONY AND BAMBOO FESTIVAL, DAY 2: 10 am-4 pm, the second of two days for this celebration at the Seattle Chinese Garden on the north side of the South Seattle College (WSB sponsor) campus on Puget Ridge. See the schedule here, including demonstrations, Q&A, food, other vendors, more. (6000 16th SW)
WEST SEATTLE FARMERS’ MARKET: 10 am-2 pm in the street in The Junction – with today’s features including a noon cooking demonstration, and new vendors – details here. (California SW between SW Oregon and SW Alaska)
6TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION @ WEST SEATTLE RUNNER, DAY 3: Final day of the celebration/sale at West Seattle Runner (WSB sponsor), continuing during store hours 11 am-5 pm – details here. (2743 California SW)
MEET THE GREYHOUNDS: 11 am-1 pm at Mud Bay in The Admiral District, Greyhound Pets Inc. invites you to a meet-and-greet. (2611 California SW)
SOUTHWEST STORIES: The Southwest Seattle Historical Society‘s monthly series continues with a look at “West Seattle Heritage in Jazz,” featuring vibraphonist Tom Collier, who recorded this music-enhanced video invitation:
2 pm at Delridge Library, Collier will talk AND play. SPL, by the way, co-sponsors the series. (5423 Delridge Way SW)
OPERA PREVIEW LECTURE: 2 pm at West Seattle (Admiral) Library, “an entertaining preview lecture on Seattle Opera’s upcoming production of Wagner’s stirring fable which recounts the stormy romance between a supernatural sea captain and a young woman obsessed with his legend.” (2306 42nd SW)
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE … next week, next month, beyond, via our complete calendar.
Two West Seattle Crime Watch reports this morning:
OVERNIGHT GUNFIRE: We checked with police to find out if overnight reports of possible gunshots in the Admiral and High Point areas led to any confirmation of gunfire. According to Southwest Precinct Lt. Alan Williams, “a few casings” were found at 35th and Raymond, but “no known property damage, injuries, or verifiable witnesses to our knowledge at this time,” and “nothing else from any of the other locations where people reported hearing what sounded to them to be shots being fired.”
COAT STOLEN: A resident at 17th and Cloverdale says a coat was stolen from her car in front of her house between about 8 and 10:30 last night, a “women’s navy Barbour coat with hood and red interior in a size small … the suspect left another article of clothing on the sidewalk, presumably something he/she did not find as interesting.” She thinks that after grocery-shopping late in the day, “I had forgotten to doublecheck all car doors were locked.” Please comment, or let police know, if you happen to see a coat like this tossed aside somewhere.
That’s the first of the “surplus substations” in West Seattle to officially start the journey to greenspace – the former Delridge substation at 23rd SW and SW Findlay. It’s now at the heart of the Delridge Wetlands and Stewardship Project, and community volunteers were there Saturday as part of the multi-site Duwamish Alive! event.
This document on the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association website explains what the project is all about – including plans for the site to include a community garden and to be an outdoor classroom for students from nearby Louisa Boren K-8 STEM.
DNDA’s Willard Brown (above), who’s leading the project, offered words of welcome as well as elaboration on plans for the site:
The “next generation of stewards” mentioned on Saturday morning was already represented, working with the Nature Consortium on an art project:
Also there were reps of other partner organizations – including City Light, whose senior environmental analyst Rory Denovan (a West Seattleite), offered a few words too, as did Sharon Leishman of the Duwamish Alive! Coalition and Mary Fleck of the Seattle Green Spaces Coalition. It’ll take a lot of work to make hopes and dreams for the site come true – if you can help, willard@dnda.org is how to check in with Willard Brown and find out how.
It’s beautiful, and it can be deadly. Water surrounds us, but water safety isn’t routinely taught to the youngest and most vulnerable among us. April Pool’s Day is meant to change that. The annual mix of safety lessons, free swim time, and incentives including raffles and treats happened at pools all over King County today, including Seattle Parks’ Southwest Pool in West Seattle. Toward the end of the free family event, lifeguards taught a round of boating safety, above. At poolside, we met someone with a special reason for pride in what was happening:
That’s Tony Gomez, who manages the violence and injury prevention program for the Seattle-King County Public Health Department, and organized April Pool’s Day almost a quarter-century ago. He said it was inspired by a desire to recognize those who had saved lives – and then became a way to teach safety to those who could learn to save themselves. We talked about how this time of year – the first warm, sunny days – always brings the risk, and sometimes the reality, of deadly tragedy, especially in our area’s fast-moving, chilly river waters, far more treacherous than they appear. Today’s events focused on cold-water awareness, lifejacket use and promotion, and basic water rescue. If someone in your family doesn’t know how to swim – it’s never too soon, or too late, to start. April Pool’s Day is a reminder of that.
Information on lessons and swim sessions at SW Pool is here.
If you didn’t get to the Seattle Chinese Garden on Puget Ridge today for the first day of the Peony and Bamboo Festival – good news, you have another chance tomorrow. Thanks to David Hutchinson for sharing photos from today! The lion dance was a Saturday-only feature, but the festival’s namesake flowers and plants will be on view again Sunday for your viewing pleasure:
Tomorrow’s schedule also includes Tai Chi, demonstrations, food, gardening Q&A, and music – see it here.
The garden is on the north side of the South Seattle College (WSB sponsor) campus on Puget Ridge, off the north parking lot at 6000 16th SW; tomorrow’s festival hours are 10 am-4 pm.
Three West Seattle business notes:
RECORD STORE DAY NIGHT: The most-festive day of the year at Easy Street Records is in its 12th hour, since a 7 am opening for which people were standing in line. We stopped in for the first of two afternoon/evening events, with Greg Vandy of KEXP‘s “Roadhouse“ show in the store this afternoon, signing his “26 Songs in 30 Days” book about Woody Guthrie:
One more event before RSD wraps – a live in-store performance by Acapulco Lips, coming up at 7 pm.
JF HENRY FINALE: As noted here earlier this week, today was closing day for JF Henry Cooking and Dining in The Junction, after 31 years. We stopped in toward the end of the last day for a photo:
What are you going to do next? we asked. “Not be here!” they joked – though on a more serious note, they will be back for a while around midweek, since there’s still some cleanup to do, despite how much merchandise moved during their retirement sale. Some of the remaining merchandise, they tell us, will be on eBay. (Backstory: We reported on their retirement plans in early March, and followed up on the building’s future days later.
PEGASUS REOPENS: The folks at Pegasus Pizza on Alki promised to let us know when their remodeling closure was over. This afternoon, they sent word that after five days, the restaurant is now open again.
Three notes in West Seattle Crime Watch as we move into Saturday evening:
WHAT GUARDIAN ONE WAS DOING OVER SOUTH DELRIDGE: Thanks for the tips. The Guardian One helicopter has just left South Delridge airspace after helping with an auto-theft case. No other details yet – we had to track down an SPD officer on the ground just to find out that much, since we weren’t hearing anything on the scanner but people kept texting about the helicopter overhead. (Thanks! 206-293-6302 any time.) If we find out anything additional, we’ll update.
OVERNIGHT CAR PROWLS: One reader report today, from Sarah:
Just a quick report that both of our cars were rifled through last night sometime between 10 pm and 6:00 am. The cars were both in our driveway on SW Winthrop St [map]. Nothing of value was taken but a bag with gym clothes was returned to us from Seattle Police this morning.
NEXT WEST SEATTLE CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL MEETING: WSCPC president Richard Miller sent word today of the spotlight topic for Tuesday night’s meeting (7 pm, Southwest Precinct, Delridge/Webster): “Parking enforcement issues: People will be able to get answers about and make comments or complaints about parking-related issues.” And as always, police from the precinct will be there to talk about crime trends and listen to neighborhood concerns.
4:25 PM: The biggest sports event in West Seattle today has another hour-plus to go (until 5:30ish) at Alki Beach, this year’s “home” for the University of Washington Huskies. They’re hosting Oregon, on 2 courts. No admission charge; good crowd. More photos, and scores, later.
8:46 PM: The Huskies tweeted that they took the match, 3-2. As promised, more photos:
Here’s the roster. Checking the schedule, this appears to have been the one and only “home” match for the Huskies this year, the third one for the beach-volleyball program at UW, so they’re not expected back at Alki this year. We’ll check to see about next year.
The spring edition of Duwamish Alive! has just wrapped up. We stopped at two of the dozen-plus volunteer sites, and this was the first:
Dozens of volunteers gathered before the 10 am work-party start time at Greg Davis Park along Longfellow Creek in North Delridge. Supporting the Duwamish River means supporting its watershed and the waterways that feed into it, like Longfellow. A special 9:30 am kickoff event here included words from 34th District State Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon (below), who’s hailed as an environmental champion, as well as from Chauncey Foster (2nd below) and Sharon Leishman (3rd below), both from the Duwamish Alive! Coalition:
The main message is that supporting your local urban forest and waterway(s) matters all year long, not just on special days like this one and the fall Duwamish Alive! date – get involved. Every little bit helps – no matter how young (or not-as-young) you are:
You’ll also see “the next generation of stewards” in our second report, coming up in a few hours.
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Thanks to Chris Frankovich for the photo: That’s the USAV General Brehon B. Somervell, aka LSV-3, based in Tacoma, heading north past West Seattle’s western shores this morning. The ship is assigned to the U.S. Army Reserve‘s 805th Transportation Detachment. We don’t know where it’s headed, but as of right now, MarineTraffic.com shows it passing Whidbey Island.
(WSB video and photos)
Great day for a bike ride, and this is a big one – Cascade Bicycle Club‘s second annual Ride for Major Taylor. Our video shows the riders taking off from Chief Sealth International High School this morning – after, of course, photo ops!
(Above: Don Brubeck, president of West Seattle Bike Connections)
It’s a fundraiser for the Major Taylor Project, a youth-development program serving hundreds of middle- and high-school-age students at schools including Sealth and adjacent Denny International Middle School. The namesake and inspiration is Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, the first African American cyclist to become a world champion. They’re riding through South King County – not a race, but a 24-mile ride – and the official finish line is Big Al Brewing in White Center.
It’s been six years since we first reported on Lori and Tim McConnell‘s plan for a store to serve West Seattle’s running community – and as they celebrate another anniversary, West Seattle Runner (WSB sponsor) is going strong. We stopped in to photograph them and new shop dog Myrtle as they greeted participants arriving for the weekly Saturday morning group run:
This is WSR’s second anniversary since the move to a larger storefront at 2743 California SW. As noted in this WSB West Seattle Event Calendar listing, their anniversary sale/celebration continues all weekend, with discounts, treats, and raffles. WS Runner is open today until 6 pm, 11 am-5 pm on Sunday.
P.S. WSR is again presenting the Float Dodger 5K before the West Seattle Grand Parade this year – Saturday, July 23rd – this year starting on the nearby Hiawatha track. Registration is already open, online or in person at WSR.
(West Seattle tulips: From the WSB Flickr group, by Flickr member Yel0Rose)
Spectacular Saturday ahead … weather-wise as well as in terms of your many, many options, including these:
RECORD STORE DAY @ EASY STREET: Biggest day of the year at Easy Street Records in The Junction, and it starts at 7 am. In the very-early-morning hours, the store posted this Instagram video showing prospective shoppers how things are laid out inside. See our preview for details, including events this afternoon and evening. (California SW/SW Alaska)
6TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION @ WEST SEATTLE RUNNER: The 8 am group run with Pearl Izumi starts the second day of the celebration at West Seattle Runner (WSB sponsor), continuing during store hours 10 am-6 pm – details here. (2743 California SW)
BOY SCOUT TROOP 484’S MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE: 8 am-4 pm at Admiral Congregational Church:
Bake sale too! More info here. (California SW/SW Hill)
RIDE FOR MAJOR TAYLOR: It’s not a race, it’s a ride, so departures from the starting line at Chief Sealth International High School start at 9 am – that’s also when you can register to participate, if you haven’t already. See our preview for more info. (2600 SW Thistle)
SEASON STARTS FOR TAI CHI ON THE BEACH: 9 am, first 2016 session of Tai Chi on the Beach with Lao-Shi Caylen Storm, free. Details in our calendar listing. (Near the Bathhouse, 60th SW/Alki SW)
DUWAMISH ALIVE! KICKOFF & RESTORATION/CLEANUP EVENTS: The spring edition of Duwamish Alive! gets going with a 9:30 am kickoff event at Greg Davis Park in North Delridge (2600 SW Brandon), and continues with volunteer restoration/cleanup events 10 am-2 pm at multiple locations from West Seattle to Georgetown to South Park to Tukwila. Pigeon Point Park was said to be most in need of additional volunteers – so if you’re not signed up somewhere yet, just go there at 10! Full event details and addresses are on the official website.
KAREN KONZUK COLLECTION LAUNCH @ CLICK! 10 am-5 pm at Click! Design That Fits (WSB sponsor) in The Junction, jewelry-maker Karen Konzuk‘s new Stellar collection launches. Find out more on the Click! website. (4540 California SW)
MIOPOSTO BRUNCH: Second weekend for brunch starting at 10 am at Mioposto in Admiral (WSB sponsor) – you might need fuel to keep going with this schedule of events. (2139 California SW)
CLOSING DAY FOR JF HENRY: 10 am-6 pm, it’s the last day of the retirement sale at JF Henry Cooking and Dining, whose owners say they’re closing after today. (4445 California SW)
PEONY AND BAMBOO FESTIVAL: 10 am-4 pm, the first of two days for this springtime celebration at the Seattle Chinese Garden just north of the South Seattle College (WSB sponsor) campus on Puget Ridge. See the schedule here, including 11:15 am lion dance, followed by Bubbleman. (6000 16th SW)
APRIL POOL’S DAY: 10:30 am-noon, free and fun chance to learn about water safety and go swimming at Southwest Pool. More info here. (2801 SW Thistle)
DELRIDGE STEWARDSHIP/WETLANDS GROUNDBREAKING: 11 am, with students and community leaders joining in the celebration, explained here. (23rd SW/SW Findlay)
WSHS BASEBALL @ THE SAFE: 12:30 pm, the West Seattle High School baseball team plays in the annual High School Baseball Classic at Safeco Field, facing Olympic HS (from Bremerton). Admission is free; Safeco garage parking is only $5. Go cheer for the Wildcats. (1250 1st Ave. S.)
TEA PARTY @ THE LONGHOUSE: The annual Duwamish Princess Angeline Native Tea Party is hosted by Princess Angeline’s great-great-grand-niece, Duwamish Tribe chair Cecile Hansen. Native and English Teas and more, $10 suggested donation, 1-3 pm; details here. (4705 W. Marginal Way SW)
NANCY PEARL @ FULL TILT: The Northwest’s legendary librarian, Nancy Pearl, is a guest scooper at Full Tilt Ice Cream in White Center at 2 pm, celebrating the first in a series of new flavors honoring local icons. Part of the proceeds will go to the White Center Library Guild. (9629 16th SW)
HUSKIES VS. DUCKS AT ALKI: 2:30 pm-~5:45 pm on two courts at Alki Beach, the University of Washington beach-volleyball team plays its first-ever home game, hosting regional rivals, the University of Oregon. Admission free; more info in our preview. (57th SW/SW Alki)
ROO FORREST AND FRIENDS: Relax with live music – a mix of covers and originals – at the end of a busy day. Roo Forrest and Friends are performing at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), 7-9 pm. (5612 California SW)
HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT … there’s even more for today/tonight on our calendar (and for tomorrow, next week, beyond!).
Four reader reports in West Seattle Crime Watch, and a followup from a car theft reported this morning:
ALKI CAR PROWL: From Amy:
When I got into my car today at 2:00 PM, I noticed it had been broken into. I don’t know if it happened on Thursday night or this morning. The car was parked on the street on the 3100 block of Alki Ave. SW.
The door by the driver’s seat was unlocked, though I am always careful to lock it. No visible damage was done and nothing was taken (I don’t keep any valuables in the car), but it was clear the car had been searched (the trunk was popped open, the glove compartment and ashtray were open).
SUNRISE HEIGHTS CAR PROWL: From Morgan:
Unfortunately sometime last night/ this morning our neighbors’ SUV had its window smashed in. Nothing was in the car, so nothing was taken, but it was rifled through. This happened on 34th Ave SW between Webster and Holden. The police have been notified.
HIT-RUNS: A resident of SW Findlay between California and Fauntleroy says their car suffered hit-run damage around 5:30 am and while they don’t have enough evidence to put out a call for a certain type of car, theirs is “light gold/tan” and should have some front-passenger-side damage. They also wish the many drivers who use the street as a cut-through would please slow down.
FOLLOWUP – CAR FOUND: Shortly after we published a Crime Watch report this morning about two stolen cars, we heard from a neighbor who had spotted one of them. Rebecca‘s red Subaru wagon turned up just blocks away from where it had been stolen in Gatewood. She said it was “a mess inside,” but drivable, and shared these words of thanks:
Thank-you, neighbor Bonnie, for reading the blog and reporting back. I feel lucky to live in a community like West Seattle. Thanks to Officer Houston (sp), who came knocking around 3 hours of initial report (I did not even think they would send an officer out for a car theft). And a big shout out to the West Seattle Blog, which serves such a critical role as a conduit of information and a forum for the West Seattle Community. You are the best!
As far as we know, the gray Mercedes also reported stolen this morning hasn’t been found yet.
(WSB photo: WSHS pitcher Anthony Coats)
Go root for the West Seattle High School Wildcats at Safeco Field tomorrow! There, they will face Bremerton’s Olympic HS after a tough loss at home to Roosevelt HS this afternoon. Thanks to Caryn Johnson for the report and the next three photos:
Friday afternoon was a little chilly, but another nice afternoon for baseball. This game would see 24 hits between the two teams and 16 runs scored. Junior Ryan Kimsey started on the mound for West Seattle against senior Tomiz Medina for Roosevelt. The Rough Riders would score in the first three innings to take an early 5-2 lead and then tacked on another two in the top of the 5th. West Seattle would come alive in the bottom of the 6th inning, with three hits, two walks and 4 runs scored. By the end of the inning it was all tied up. Unfortunately, the Wildcats would fall short and ended up losing 7-9.
Jamie Maples (photo above) and Anthony Coats had three hits each to produce 5 RBI’s between the two of them.
Defensively, Nathan Johnson (photo above) made two great catches in center field to keep the game close.
Remember to come out to cheer on West Seattle at Safeco Field, Saturday at 12:30 pm, as they play in the High School Baseball Classic. Gates open at 11:30 and parking in the Safeco parking lot is only $5; admission to the game is free. Hope to see you all there.
Now that we all know April 29th is the date the tunneling machine is set to start going under the Alaskan Way Viaduct – closing it precautionarily for “about two weeks” – that date will be top-of-mind for a while. Something else that’s big for the city also starts two weeks from today: This year’s cruise-ship season. The first ship on the schedule, Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam, will be here that day. But it’s docking at Magnolia’s Pier 91, not the Viaduct-side Pier 66. According to a Port of Seattle fact sheet, this year’s season will bring the most passengers ever – just under 960,000. The 203 ship dockings aren’t a record, though; that number peaked in 2010, with 223. Last ship on the Seattle schedule this year will be the Star Princess, on October 21st.
(See this map on the WSDOT site by going here)
JUST IN, 1:59 PM: WSDOT promised we’d get two weeks notice of the Alaskan Way Viaduct’s two-weeks-or-so tunneling shutdown, and that notice just arrived: The state says the closure will start before the morning commute on Friday, April 29th. Here’s the full announcement.
WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW: We’ll be adding to this over the next hour or so – backstory plus useful info links.
*How to lessen the pain (advice and links)
*As you’ve probably already read in previews here and elsewhere, specific plans include:
• WSDOT and SDOT will actively monitor highway and street traffic, adjusting signal timing, updating electronic message boards and
deploying additional incident response teams as needed.• King County Metro is rerouting 12 routes and deploying 22 buses to help maintain schedules.
[See page 2 of this PDF for West Seattle specifics including a larger version of the map above.]• Police officers will provide manual traffic control at key chokepoint intersections.
• King County Water Taxi will add five extra round trips to its Vashon route and will provide additional parking and connector shuttle capacity for West Seattle route passengers. [See this brochure for info on extra parking, etc.]
We also will beef up our regular traffic coverage for closer watch of West Seattle-tailored alternate routes and more during the closure. At least one alternate route is available for this, that wasn’t available for 2011’s “Viadoom” 8-day closure – the South Park Bridge.
BACKSTORY: It was almost exactly 3 years ago that we first reported a Viaduct closure was possible when the tunneling machine went beneath it, thanks to a tip from West Seattle Bike Connections president Don Brubeck.
REMINDER: As announced earlier today, that’s not the only closure West Seattleites will be dealing with – the Fauntleroy Expressway bearing-pad-re-replacement closures will start two days earlier.
(Alki Trail turns pink! Photo by Don Brubeck)
If you haven’t already checked our calendar – here are highlights of what’s yet to come this afternoon/evening in West Seattle:
WEST SEATTLE RUNNER’S ANNIVERSARY SALE: Today through Sunday, West Seattle Runner (WSB sponsor) celebrates its 6th anniversary, and you get the gifts, including sale prices and refreshments. Details here, including tomorrow morning’s group run. Open until 7 pm tonight. (2743 California SW)
BASEBALL: 3:30 pm, West Seattle High School hosts Roosevelt HS at Hiawatha. (2700 California SW)
WINE TASTING AT VISCON CELLARS: 5-9 pm, the tasting room for West Seattle winery Viscon Cellars (WSB sponsor) is open! (5910 California SW)
MOVIE NIGHT AT HPIC: With bees! Doors to the Highland Park Improvement Club open at 6 pm, special event at 6:15 pm, movie at 7 – full details here. (12th SW/SW Holden)
FAMILY BOOT CAMP AT THE Y: 6:30-8 pm – details here. Members free, community participants $5. Bouncing, jumping, lots more lively ways to have fun and be fit. (4515 36th SW)
4 STOPS FOR LIVE MUSIC: Dave Holo Trio at Salty’s on Alki (WSB sponsor), 5-8 pm (1936 Harbor SW); C & P Coffee; the rhythm-section members of Polyrhythmics join Lucky Brown tonight at Parliament Tavern, 9:30 pm (4210 SW Admiral Way).
(2015 photo by Ron Creel – that long greenbelt in the middle of the photo, west of the river, is the West Duwamish Greenbelt)
Lots happening in West Seattle tomorrow, but nothing bigger than the spring edition of Duwamish Alive!, the twice-yearly mega-work party to help the Duwamish River and its watershed. As already previewed here, the multi-site restoration/cleanup party has a big 9:30 am kickoff at Greg Davis Park in North Delridge. From 10 am-2 pm, hundreds of volunteers will help out at sites from West Seattle to Tukwila. Not too late to sign up here. We’re told one of the West Seattle sites most in need of some more helping hands is Pigeon Point Park (next to Pathfinder K-8 School), where you can help the West Seattle-headquartered Nature Consortium continue restoring part of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. You can go directly here to let them know you’ll help there!
(2012 WSB photo by Christopher Boffoli, during original bearing-pad-replacement work)
Since January, we’ve been warning you that dozens of closures are ahead for the west end of the West Seattle Bridge, for the work to re-replace hundreds of earthquake-safety cushions, officially known as bearing pads. (Here’s the backstory.) SDOT announced earlier this month that the work would likely start in late April, and this morning the contractor has sent word of the specific dates and times, starting April 27th. Note that the announcement includes not only nighttime closures of the west end of the high bridge (formally called the Fauntleroy Expressway), but also lane closures on Spokane Street beneath it – daytime as well as nighttime. Here are full details:
C A Carey will be closing the Fauntleroy Expressway (West Seattle Bridge) from 9 pm to 5 am. The bridge will be closed westbound at Delridge Way and eastbound at 35th Ave SW.
In the evenings, under-bridge traffic (Spokane Street) will be reduced to one lane in both directions east- and westbound. C A Carey will be out flagging along with the closed lanes. Expect delays if traveling under the bridge. Carey will also be working during the day to reduce traffic under the bridge to one lane in both directions, and flagging as needed. Hours for the lanes are westbound Spokane St are 7 am to 6 pm and eastbound Spokane St are 9 am to 6 pm Monday thru Friday.
This work will start on April 27, 2016 and continue through July 15, 2016.
Daytime (Lane) Closures
Spokane St eastbound 9 am to 6 pm
Spokane St westbound 7 am to 6 pm
Mondays thru FridaysNighttime Closure
Spokane St (lane) eastbound 6 pm to 6 am
Spokane St (lane) westbound 6 pm to 6 am
Fauntleroy Expressway [bridge] 9 pm to 5 am
Sundays thru Fridays
Throughout the closures, we will include reminders (and any changes/updates) in our weekday morning traffic/transit watches and weekend previews, and will also add the overall information to the WSB Traffic page.
9:17 AM: The morning began with two stolen-car reader reports. First, from Rebecca in Gatewood:
I just wanted to alert the neighborhood that our car was stolen (parked on the street in front of our house) during the late night/early morning of April 14-15th, between 10 pm-6 am. It is a 1995 red Subaru wagon with a bumper sticker ‘Art Saves Lives’. Lots of nicer, newer vehicles parked on the street, but ours was most likely easy to break into. If you see it, please contact the police. Another reminder to be on alert. Report any suspicious activity.
And from Pamela:
Sometime early this morning, our 2015 dark gray Mercedes SUV was stolen from our driveway on Beach Drive. 2 bikes were left at the top of our driveway, I assume from the thieves.
We’re checking back with both to get the license-plate numbers – although, as with the vehicle in this case last week, thieves can and do swap plates. Please call 911 if you see either of these stolen cars or a vehicle you suspect was stolen and dumped – they are often just used as transportation between crime scenes rather than as something to strip or sell for monetary value.
9:46 AM: Two updates – first, we’ve been alerted that Rebecca’s car has been spotted, not far from where it was taken. The finder has called police, and we’ve e-mailed Rebecca. Second, we have the plate and a little more description for Pamela’s stolen vehicle: 2015 Mercedes ML350, license plate AZE7438.
(Click any view for a close-up; more cameras on the WSB Traffic page)
7:06 AM: Good morning and happy Friday! No incidents in/from West Seattle so far this morning.
ROAD WORK: 30th and Yancy both are closed at Avalon now that the SDOT project at that intersection has moved from the west side to the east side.
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