Seattle, WA
WEST SEATTLE BRIDGE: SDOT’s last weekly update
If you happen to’ve been on the SDOT mailing record for weekly West Seattle Bridge updates – right now’s e-newsletter is the final one, they’ve introduced. Right here’s the ultimate replace, three weeks post-reopening:
The West Seattle Bridge has been open to vacationers for almost 3 weeks, and individuals are transitioning again to their pre-closure journey patterns. Almost 2/3 of pre-closure bridge vacationers have returned to the excessive bridge over the previous few weeks.
Visitors on the Spokane St Swing Bridge (low bridge), which is now open for everybody 24/7, has decreased by 30%, enhancing the stream of products out and in of Seattle’s busy port. Visitors volumes on West Marginal Means SW, which had been 250% increased than pre-closure volumes, have decreased dramatically. Elsewhere on the previous detour routes – reminiscent of East Marginal Means S and 1st Ave S – the variety of vehicles on the street has returned to what it was previous to March 2020.
Visitors on the low bridge, which sits just under the West Seattle Bridge, was down by greater than 30% since reopening to all customers.
Individuals touring to and from West Seattle are getting time again of their every day lives as visitors continues to regulate after the bridge reopening.
This lower in visitors volumes throughout West Seattle implies that individuals are attending to their locations in much less time. Peak journey instances on most former detour routes have decreased considerably and folks commuting to downtown from some neighborhoods in West Seattle have seen their journey instances minimize in half.
Whereas increasingly more individuals get again on the bridge for his or her commutes, we are going to proceed to observe and examine it within the months to return. Our first complete inspection following the reopening confirmed that the repairs are doing their job and maintaining the bridge robust and steady.