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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.
West Spokane Street Bridge, the 1924 low-span bridge that the Chavez smashed into (closed to traffic in 1978), and its 1930 low-span companion (closed to traffic in 1989) West Seattle Bridge , the high span that replaced the West Spokane Street Bridge for commuter purposes, opening in 1984
Arksey, Laura (February 14, 2006), "Spokane's Division Street Bridge collapses on December 18, 1915", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink Foxworthy, Bruce LaVerne; Hill, Mary (1982), "Mudflows and floods", Volcanic eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: the first 100 days (Volume 1249 of Geological Survey professional paper), United States Geological Survey/Government Printing Office, pp. 61– 65
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 ...
Two-way traffic will resume by this weekend, but the opening of temporary lanes will not totally fix the gridlock.
To get to the Fauntleroy ferry terminal in West Seattle, I took a couple of buses from the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. When I arrived, I bought a $6.50 ticket at a booth inside the ...
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