December 2021

Low bridge short-term closures to traffic for five Sundays starting December 19

information from the Seattle Department of Transportation

On some Sundays in December and January, we will briefly close the Spokane St Swing Bridge (low bridge) for three times a day to people driving, taking transit, walking, and biking. These closures could last up to 30 minutes each, which is about twice as long as the bridge is closed to traffic when it swings open for a vessel.  

In 2022, we are performing important rehabilitation upgrades to the low bridge to ensure that it remains in safe and usable condition. We will use these short-term closures to measure important deflection data for the low bridge to ensure that future construction scaffolding will be safe to use while we complete this rehabilitation work.  

We are aligning these short closures to happen during off-peak periods and when there are lulls in traffic to minimize impacts to the community, including transit, freight, and other approved low bridge users.  

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WSTC meeting will discuss local bridges, and more Dec. 16

The West Seattle Transportation Coalition will have representatives from Seattle Department Of Transportation and Washington State Department Of Transportation to talk bridges: how work on the high bridge is progressing, why the low bridge keeps getting stuck, and First Avenue S closures in a ZOOM meeting online Dec. 16.

The Port Of Seattle will also take part to talk about Terminal 5 developments and Harbor Island traffic management.

 

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Don't sleepwalk through this sale; Junction hosting Pajamarama Extravaganza

The West Seattle Junction is all about fun during Hometown Holidays and on Dec. 18 from 10am to 1pm, they are inviting you to "Shop in your Pajamas" during their Pajamarama Extravaganza event.

If you show up, shopping in your PJ's you get a free limited edition diner mug with any $35 purchase from participating merchants. If you bring your own mug... you get free hot chocolate (with whipped cream).

The merchants taking part are:

  • CAPERS
  • Lady Jaye
  • Carmilia's
  • NW Art & Frame
  • Curious Kidstuff
  • Pegasus Book Exchange
  • Emerald Water Anglers
  • Rudy's Barbershop
  • Fleurt Collective
  • Snip-Its
  • Funky Janes
  • Talarico's

The Hot chocolate is at Windermere Realty and the event is sponsored by PCC.

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Fireworks are back for New Years Eve at the Space Needle
No crowds permitted at Seattle Center; viewers are encouraged to watch at home; Show will combine live pyrotechnics and augmented reality 

information from The Space Needle

T-Mobile New Year’s at the Needle will see the return of fireworks this year… but not in person. The Space Needle has partnered with multimedia studios and talented digital artists to create the first-ever live fireworks show to be augmented and broadcast live with exclusive special effects that can only be seen on a TV, computer, or mobile phone. To keep the community safe, event organizers and public officials encourage everyone to “stream in the new year” from home or at watch parties without gathering or creating crowds around the Seattle landmark, in support of public health guidance.

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Sportswatch: Sporting events worth keeping an eye on

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

 

High schools

Boys basketball

Seattle Christian hosts Tyee for a 6 p.m. Wednesday game as Ballard goes on the road to Lake Stevens.

Foster faces a 7 p.m. Thursday home game against Auburn Mountainview as Mount Rainier entertains Bellevue.

Highline visits Foster at 5:40 p.m. Friday and Tyee entertains Sammamish at 6:30 p.m. with Seattle Christian going to East Jefferson at 7 p.m. and Evergreen hosting Summit at 7:15 p.m.

At 8:30 p.m. Friday it's Rainier Beach at Chief Sealth and Franklin at West Seattle.

Highline hosts Lincoln at 4 p.m. Saturday with Mount Rainier entertaining Tyee and Kennedy Catholic hosting Auburn Mountainview at 6 p.m.

Ballard will be home against Juanita at 7 p.m. Monday and Mount Rainier travels to Issaquah at 7:15 p.m.

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Memories rekindled; Memorial site for murder victims rededicated on Alki

The parents of murder victims Jessica Lewis and Austin Wenner learned that the site of a simple memorial they had established last summer had been destroyed just prior to Thanksgiving. They had set it up last June at the site near Anchor Park/Duwamish Head where their bodies were discovered.

But for reasons unknown someone took it apart.

That meant the families would come together in their grief and pain again to once again create something to honor the memories of their loved ones. 

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UPDATE: Clusters of power outages hit West Seattle; Now restored
2500 Comcast cable customers were out too

Update 6:15 PM

Aside from a few homes still in the dark the power outage that hit West Seattle plus the cable outage has been resolved.

Update 2:25 PM

Most of the power outages are resolved but 49 customers near SW Myrtle Street, east of California Ave SW were still out. A few other small areas were still without electricity at this hour. A 4pm restoration time was listed.

The Comcast outage continued for the 2500 customers in West Seattle however with no word on when it might be back.

Update 10:25 AM

Power to close to 150 homes in the Highland Park neighborhood got their power back but persistent power outages continued for around 240 others notably near Thistle and California Ave SW. Other small pockets including one in north part of West Seattle between Grayson Street SW and Watts Street SW on 49th SW affected 19 homes.

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HERBOLD: West Seattle Bridge schedule details for repair and major maintenance

District 1 Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold shared an update on the repair and maintenance schedule now in place regarding the West Seattle Bridge.

 

At the West Seattle Bridge Community Task Force, Kraemer North American, the contractor for the West Seattle Bridge repair, presented schedule details for the repair and major maintenance, and detailed drawings showing where work will take place.

First, a note that SDOT will be updating, on an ongoing basis, the visual below as one way to illustrate the progress on repair work listing status of work by color coding.

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