Comments on: Construction messes up traffic along Leary

By: 50intheclip

50intheclip — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:56:15 +0000

very very good question

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:25:26 +0000

I tried to put a gas line to my home. I live on what the city classifies as an arterial. One block south it's asphalt, but on my block, it's concrete. Puget Sound Energy told me to run the gas line, I'd have to pay up to $17,000, yes, that's $17,000 to replace two concrete panels (on a street full of chuck holes and asphalt patches put in by the City). This is because the City of Seattle now requires contractors to replace a whole concrete panel even if they dig a small hole. But if it is asphalt, there is no such requirement. Or, no, wait, if it is a developer in Ballard, my guess is you can get the city to do the fixes! And clearly it's not uniformly enforced, because there is a huge repair of asphalt over concrete on Market near 32nd and also near the liqueur store…I even tried to get a waiver from the city and they agreed to have me only replace most of the two panels, reducing my cost to $15,000. I decided to bag the idea and continue burning oil for heat and electricity for cooking.

By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:54:16 +0000

I'm not sure they followed standard procedure here. Has Leary recently received a major down-to-bedrock rebuild recently? You're supposed to make your cuts across the street only after you've just spent millions redoing the entire street, so that your repair job will ruin all that work and sink in and flake off twice a year henceforth.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:10:07 +0000

And of course they have the resident garage at Canal Station blocked off, too, which meant I had to park a few blocks away this afternoon. I hear they are supposed to wrap up at 4:30 each day, though.

By: Roadkill

Roadkill — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:46:45 +0000

I wonder if this will affect traffic tonight, or if it will be driveable?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:35:35 +0000

@bruce
Usually when utility work is done, the utility crew puts down temporary pavement which is later replaced by a road paving crew. The utility crew generally doesn't have the equipment or expertise to do a proper job repaving the road. When they are done with their utility work, a paving crew is scheduled to repave the section of road.

By: bruce hutson

bruce hutson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:04 +0000

repair the repair…classic!

By: 50intheclip

50intheclip — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:08:40 +0000

looks like the biggest traffic jam so far this year.