The Seattle Department of Transportation is closing two northbound lanes on the Aurora Bridge from 12:30-2pm today. The left and center lanes will be closed for emergency, temporary expansion joint repairs. The right lane will stay open for traffic.
Emergency repairs on Aurora Bridge today
Saw the damage last night. Looked like 8-10 of concrete broke up along to the metal joints. Center lane southbound. Hopefully nobody drove over that hole. Looked like it could do some serious damage.
Scary!
I drove over it earlier in the evening (5:30-ish) in my little Toyota Echo, and it made a bit of a clunk. At that point it just looked like a deep seam, but it wasn't visible until it was too late. Luckily, the hole wasn't that big yet. Later that evening when we came back through at about 8:30, there was a pile of rubble guarded by a police car with a truck coming to deal with it.
That's our record-breaking heat at work!
I hate to spread rumors, but I'm a little too tired to look it up… isn't this the same bridge design as the one that collapsed in the midwest last year?