The intersection of 85th and Greenwood is a mess today as Seattle Department of Transportation crews fix the road where the water main broke two weeks ago.
Westbound 85th Street traffic can’t cross Greenwood Avenue at all, so you’ll have to turn right or left on Greenwood. There’s only one lane of eastbound 85th Street traffic from Palatine Avenue to Greenwood Avenue. North-south Greenwood Avenue traffic is fine, although, obviously, you can’t turn westbound onto 85th. Officers are directing traffic around the area.
Crews are digging up the surrounding crumbling street so they can lay new asphalt.
Here they’re using a mighty big wetsaw to cut out the panel.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Chris // Aug 24, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Thanks Doree.
2 Iron City Mike // Aug 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Love the fast response – and can’t wait until the Seattle Mayor is from Greenwood!
3 Chris // Aug 24, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I agree with Iron City Mike. Maybe some of the neighborhoods north of 85th that don’t have curbs, gutters and sidewalks will get those, too!
4 Northa85th // Aug 24, 2009 at 4:17 pm
@3–motion seconded!
Most of my running routes head south across the Shel Silverstein threshold. Over the past few years, I’ve seen improvements to the sidewalks in parts of Greenwood and Phinney–ramps at intersections being installed, that sorta thing. I imagine it’s some sort of ADA compliance thing, but it’s something of an insult to dump limited resources into infrastructure that’s already there rather than using those funds to make forgotten parts of the City safer for pedestrians.
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