Tag: lower west seattle bridge

January 3, 2023

SDOT will begin installing ‘temporary protected bike lanes’ in SoDo this week

SDOT will create temporary bike lanes to fill a gap in the Duwamish Trail and to improve safety on a significant stretch of 1st Avenue S in SoDo while crews work to repair the Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle. Work will begin Wednesday. As we wrote in a post last week, “Creating two miles…
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tagged: 1st ave s, emergency bike lanes, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, sodo
December 30, 2022

The case for an emergency SoDo bike path in response to the Spokane Street Bridge closure

The Spokane Street Bridge Connecting West Seattle to the mainland closed during the holiday ice storm and has been out of operation ever since. Repairs will take a minimum of two weeks, SDOT said earlier this week, pegging the earliest reopening date at January 10. People in West Seattle have put up with a lot…
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tagged: 1st ave s, lower west seattle bridge, west seattle
December 27, 2022

Alert: The Spokane Street Bridge will be closed ‘at least two weeks’

SDOT posted an update Tuesday evening with terrible news for people who walk or bike between mainland Seattle and West Seattle: The Spokane Street Bridge, the lower swing bridge with the biking and walking path, will be out of commission for “at least two weeks,” according to the SDOT Blog. The Alki Water Taxi was…
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tagged: lower west seattle bridge, sdot, sodo, west seattle
December 24, 2022

Alert: Spokane Street Bridge closed ‘all weekend’

The Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle didn’t make it through the ice storm, and it will likely remain closed for the rest of the weekend. SDOT Director Greg Spotts said on Twitter that the mechanical problem on the swing bridge “may have been caused by a power outage” during the ice storm. But regardless…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, west seattle
September 26, 2022

Friday: Memorial ride for Robb Mason starts at City Hall

Family and friends of Robb Mason as well as advocates for safer streets will hold a memorial bike ride Friday from Seattle City Hall to the crosswalk near the Spokane Street Bridge where he was killed. The ride starts at 5:30 p.m. Someone driving a white or silver sedan struck and killed Robb as he…
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tagged: claudia mason, greg spotts, lower west seattle bridge, memorial rides, robert mason, seattle neighborhood greenways
July 15, 2022

Driver kills person biking near Spokane Street Bridge then flees the scene

Someone driving struck and killed a 63-year-old man on a bike at the east end of the Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle Friday evening. The suspect then fled the scene in a white or silver sedan. Our deepest condolences to this man’s friends and family. Seattle Times reporter and West Seattle resident Mike Lindblom…
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tagged: deaths, lower west seattle bridge, robert mason, spd, west seattle