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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.
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 West Spokane Street Bridge was constructed in 1924, to cross the west fork of the Duwamish Waterway and provide access to North Admiral, Alki Point, and other quickly-growing neighborhoods in West Seattle. Increasing traffic over the years had made it necessary to construct a parallel bridge in 1930.
Two-way traffic will resume by this weekend, but the opening of temporary lanes will not totally fix the gridlock.
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.
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