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Freeway Fright ’07: Tuesday morning commute updates
Again this morning, here are 6 live cameras (refresh this page any time for the latest images and info), and commute updates below them: (l to r below: latest from cams over WS Bridge midspan looking...
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Freeway Fright ’07: Complacent commuters, beaucoup bicyclists
I-5 Construction Weekday 1, dreamy … Weekday 2, almost a rerun … but tonight, WSDOT sounds the alarm that Weekday 3 could be Nightmare On Spokane Street (and 1st, and Marginal, and 4th, and so on),...
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Freeway Fright ’07: Wednesday morning commute updates
First, those 6 live cameras (refresh this page any time for the latest images and info); scroll down to see frequent commute updates below them: (l to r below: latest from cams over WS Bridge midspan...
View ArticleFreeway Fright ’07: They’ll be done sooner
Big news from WSDOT: The project is 5 days ahead of schedule and should be done by the end of next week. REMINDER: Tonight the WS Bridge onramp to NB I-5 will be closed, 10 pm-5 am. It’s supposed to...
View ArticleFreeway Fright ’07: Change in plans for Thursday morning
WSDOT has now decided not to move to the next “phase” of the project until Thursday night. That means “only” two lanes of I-5 will be closed Thursday morning, instead of three. But they still say they...
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Freeway Fright ’07: No commentary, just the cams
This morning, we’re trying alternative transportation, so no commute commentary, don’t everyone boo all together. But here are those six live cams again, with a few random notes below … (l to r below:...
View ArticleFreeway Fright ’07: Tomorrow could be tough. Really.
WSDOT says really, they mean it, they’re closing that extra lane tonight and only two lanes will be open through The Construction Zone tomorrow morning. Here’s their diagram of how everything will be...
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Freeway Fright ’07: 2-lane Friday
WSDOT made the overnight switch, which means 2 NB lanes on I-5 as of this morning. Click ahead for live cams; we’re keeping them off the front page because we’ll be talking a lot about the big fire: (l...
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Freeway Fright ’07: Beware the drive home
By all accounts, things are uglier out there than even the usual sunny “let’s get out of here and get the weekend started” Friday afternoon. And there’s a Mariners game tonight, to boot, which usually...
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Freeway Fright ’07 & beyond: Transportation tidbits
1 more week or so to go till we can stop hearing about I-5, for better or for worse, for now. Remember, the WS Bridge ramp to NB 5 is closed this weekend, like last weekend. Other WSDOT updates are...
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Freeway Fright ’07: Five mornings left
On the good side, we soon won’t have to worry any more about I-5 (and ripple effects); bad side, the added early Water Taxi run will end when the project does. The folks who unveiled the Pier 2...
View ArticleFreeway Fright ’07: Commute report
17 minutes from the top of The Bridge at Fauntleroy, to the end of The Viaduct (just before the Battery Street Tunnel). The Admiral and Delridge onramps looked somewhat crunchier than usual, however....
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Tuesday: Happening today & tonight
FREEWAY FRIGHT ’07, FOURTH-TO-LAST WEEKDAY: The I-5 work crews have reached a milestone. (Maybe we’re just punchy; we childishly giggled at the text clump toward the end of that WSDOT page’s full web...
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Freeway Fright ’07, we hardly knew ye
This is it … the final weekday morning of the I-5 work that once swamped us in speculation that West Seattle would be cut off from the rest of the known world. The state still promises it’ll all be...
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