The West Seattle Bridge is expected to reopen Sept. 18, but the Seattle Department of Transportation says there is a lot left to do and some potential hiccups that could get in the way.
To reset some of the timeline, it took about eight months for the city to figure out what was happening and why, and to make a decision on whether to replace the bridge or repair it.
“It is regrettable that the bridge specs in the 80s were not what they should have been,” she said. “But here we are — instead of complaining about it, we just went ahead and did all the things we needed to do to fix it.” One West Seattle resident said it used to take her 45 minutes to get to North Seattle for work — now it takes 90. Besides the time, it is also costing her more money.
“It doubled my commute, and it added 19 stoplights, a drawbridge, and two train tracks to make my commute go from 25 minutes to almost an hour sometimes,” she said. “It totally feels like I am playing the Game of Life in a different way.” Besides the commuters, the West Seattle Bridge reopening will also be a game-changer for small businesses. With the bridge closing in March 2020, the mom-and-pop shops, cafes, and restaurants got hit with two challenges at once — COVID and isolation from the rest of Seattle.“It’s been bad here. Because we depend a lot on downtown Seattle,” said Glen Quadros, owner of the Great American Diner.
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