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West Seattle Bridge seen from the 12th Avenue South viewpoint on Beacon Hill in 2010. A monorail extension to West Seattle in the early 2000s was planned to use the West Seattle Bridge, with elevated columns over the center barrier. [15] The plan was later scaled down to a single-track guideway over the bridge and abandoned entirely in 2005 ...
The Spokane Street Bridge, also known as the West Seattle Low-Level Bridge, is a concrete double-leaf swing bridge in Seattle, Washington. It carries Southwest Spokane Street over the Duwamish River, connecting Harbor Island to West Seattle. It has two separate end-to-end swing-span sections, each 480 feet (150 m) long.
After the completion of the second bridge in 1930, the newer bridge carried eastbound traffic (away from West Seattle), and the older 1924 bridge carried westbound traffic into the neighborhood. This remained the primary connection between West Seattle and Harbor Island throughout the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
The loop ramp from the West Seattle Bridge to northbound State Route 99 was closed on May 2, 2023, due to the formation of a 5 by 4 feet (1.5 m × 1.2 m) hole that left steel rebar exposed. [5] It reopened a week later after the damaged concrete was removed and replaced by WSDOT crews.
The 1930 bridge was replaced in official capacity by the higher-level Jeanette Williams Memorial Bridge (a.k.a. the West Seattle Bridge) in 1984. The 1930 span of the bridge was closed in 1989 and subsequently demolished to make way for a lower swing bridge connecting West Seattle to Harbor Island (now known as the Spokane Street Bridge , which ...
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The high bridge, at mile marker 19 over White Oak Road and Jonathan Creek, is being replaced with two stand alone side-by-side bridges, one to carry traffic in each direction.
West Seattle Bridge c. 1918: West Seattle Bridge c. 1918 [56] (Spokane Street Bridge) [58] c. 1918 [58] 1924: Swing bridge: Duwamish West Waterway: Spokane Street: West Seattle Bridge (1924) West Spokane Street Bridge (1924) (Bridge No. 1; North Bridge; westbound traffic after 1930) [56] 1924: 1978: Bascule: Duwamish West Waterway: Spokane ...