Spokane St. Viaduct: Why some of its new surface is getting cut up
(SDOT photos, courtesy Darin Stephens) Some driving the Spokane Street Viaduct in recent days have asked why squares are being cut from some of its newly paved surface. The questions started in the...
View ArticleWest Seattle traffic alert: NO Spokane St. Viaduct closure tonight
Just in from SDOT: The previously scheduled closure for tonight of the eastbound lanes of the Spokane Street Viaduct has been canceled; however, the same eastbound lanes from SR 99 to I-5 will be...
View ArticleSpokane St. Viaduct’s westbound 1st Avenue South on/offramp opens August 31
(SDOT photo of the nearly complete offramp side of the new ramp, taken earlier this month) Just announced by SDOT: With the project approximately 95 percent finished, major elements of the Spokane...
View ArticleUpdate: Opening time for new 1st Avenue S. ramp
When SDOT announced late Thursday that the long-awaited new 1st Avenue South onramp/offramp from the westbound Spokane Street Viaduct would open next Friday (WSB coverage here), they hadn’t set a time...
View ArticleCountdown to new Spokane St. Viaduct ramp: How to get onto it
By this time Friday morning, as SDOT announced last week, the westbound Spokane Street Viaduct‘s new 1st Avenue South on-/offramp will be open. Since it is a two-way ramp, you’ll drive southbound to...
View ArticleVideo: New westbound Spokane Street Viaduct ramp is open
Just back from SODO, where we verified that the new ramp to/from the westbound Spokane Street Viaduct is indeed open. For the first time in more than two years, you can get onto the westbound West...
View ArticleSpokane Street Viaduct: Speed-limit Q/A; ramp update
Two Spokane Street Viaduct updates this morning. First, as commenter/honorary road correspondent Robert2715 points out, the 1st Avenue South offramp from the eastbound SSV only reopened one lane this...
View ArticleThis week’s West Seattle-related traffic alerts: Short list!
Very short list for this week’s traffic alerts. We’ll group them by projects, instead of days: SPOKANE STREET VIADUCT: Nothing in the coming week, says SDOT. ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT/99: Tonight through...
View ArticleWest Seattle traffic: No major closures planned this week
Neither the Spokane Street Viaduct nor Highway 99/Alaskan Way Viaduct is scheduled for any sort of closure in the next week. (We’ll be checking with WSDOT to see if this means they’re done with the...
View ArticleSpokane Street Viaduct project: Westbound surface road now partly open;...
Two updates this afternoon related to the city’s almost-complete Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project: WESTBOUND SURFACE SPOKANE STREET PARTLY OPEN: SDOT says that for the first time in three years,...
View ArticleUpdate: Last stretch of lower Spokane Street roadway now open
5:46 PM: According to the Construction Look Ahead that SDOT updates every Thursday – see it here – westbound lower Spokane Street will be open all the way from 6th Avenue S. to East Marginal Way by 6...
View ArticleDedication next week for artwork under Spokane Street Viaduct
If you have driven the newly reopened lower Spokane Street, westbound under the newly widened Spokane Street Viaduct, you have seen the designs painted on the columns – city-commissioned art that’s...
View ArticleSpokane Street Viaduct Widening Project ceremony: ‘We’re done!’
(Photos by Nick Adams for WSB) After four years of construction, finally a celebration for the completion of the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project. It was May 2008 when word came that the...
View ArticleCity raising speed limit for Spokane Street Viaduct on east end of West...
(WSB photo, taken – from the passenger seat – midday Friday) One year after the city officially marked the end of the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project, a speed-limit change has just been...
View ArticleWest Seattle road work: More repairs for Spokane Street Viaduct
Announced late today by SDOT, more repair work is ahead for the surface of the Spokane Street Viaduct. Next Thursday (September 25th), the inside (left) eastbound lane will be closed 10 am-2 pm to fix...
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