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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 ...
A dozen anchoring cables for the new Hadley bridge were severed, [19] [24] and it was closed for a short time afterward. [25] Westbound traffic was allowed on Tuesday, [26] and eastbound traffic was resumed in early December. [27] The disaster delayed the bridge's reopening by 14 months, to September 12, 1993. [4] [28]
The King County Water Taxi connects West Seattle to Downtown Seattle. West Seattle has three bridges over the Duwamish River that connect the peninsula to SODO and Downtown Seattle. The high-level West Seattle Bridge, opened in 1984 and carries seven lanes of traffic on a short freeway that continues towards Interstate 5 on the Spokane Street ...
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.
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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 ...
A city capital projects manager said parts of the bridge have rotted from the inside out. Pierce County bridge closed for safety concerns. It’ll reopen after $829k in repairs
The half-mile span is set to reopen in mid-December. The $24.6 million project remains on budget. Before work began in March, the bridge carried some 17,000 vehicles across the Illinois River ...