I rolled to a gentle stop, my Prius humming quietly as the bridge lights flashed and traffic slowly set around me, like an automotive aspic. Silently, I cursed the other drivers who refused to turn off their engines during the wait, while my car did exactly that, all by itself. The drawspan opened, I let my thoughts drift (Again) to the possibility of making remote-controlled pinhole photographs from the upended bridge deck. "Not in these times", my internal creativity-squashing voice whined. "Someone will see it and assume it's a terrorist's bomb!" I snapped back to reality as the car in front of me pulled away, and tried to drive with the parking brake still engaged. Thanks for the moment,...
Read moreThey’ve got to improve on when they’re raising the draw bridge for marine vehicles. I understand they have the right of way but I live 2 mins from the bridge and less than 5 minutes from my destination. I’ve been sitting on this bridge for about an hour, stuck. People are crossing the yellow lines just to leave . This is ridiculous. Crazy part is I looked it up and they only raise the bridge for boats taller than 44 feet. That’s a big ass boat right ? But I don’t see no damn boat ! I been sitting here trynna get across the bridge to get my lunch and I’ve been stopped for a non...
Read moreExtreamly poorly designed and dangerous for cyclist. The pedistrian lane is far too narrow and if your riding a bicycle across cars are whipping past you at 50 mph with just inches between u and them. Pluse the railing is stupidly so low if you happened to get clipped by a motorist over the edge into the water you will go. For the volume of 15 ave and amkjnt number of cyclist between ballard and .downtown amd pedistrians as well the design of this is bridge is...
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