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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.
Seattle Times. May 24, 2013. List of Washington State bridge failures (PDF), Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), c. 2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-05 – via The Seattle Times "I-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River, no fatalities". Seattle: KING-TV. Associated Press. May 23, 2013.
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.
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The West Spokane Street Bridge was a pair of bascule bridges that crossed the west fork of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, United States. The bridges connected the SoDo and West Seattle neighborhoods over the river. The original bridge opened to traffic in 1924; a second bridge carrying eastbound traffic was opened in 1930, with the ...
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