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Your weekend Capitol Hill traffic, street closure and detour update

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Here it is. An apparently necessary regular feature for the foreseeable future — plan accordingly. Also, in case you missed it, this streetcar work will be even more worth it when the streetcar reaches Volunteer Park.

Full Closure of Broadway and Madison Intersection
Weekends Beginning October 6  

SEATTLE — Beginning Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7, and continuing for the next four weekends, the intersection of Broadway and Madison Street will be closed in all four directions to aid construction of the First Hill Streetcar.  Detours will be posted using Boren Avenue, James Street, 12th Avenue, Union Street and Seneca Street. The closures will begin each day at 7 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m.

Local access, pedestrian access, and access to businesses will be maintained during this work.

The City of Seattle is developing the First Hill Streetcar in partnership with Sound Transit, with funding provided through the 2008 voter approved Sound Transit 2 (ST2) transit expansion plan.  Completion is planned for spring 2014.

For further information, and a detour map that will be posted later today, visit the project Web site at www.seattlestreetcar.org

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motab
motab
11 years ago

Does anyone know if portions of the First Hill Streetcar will be a single set of rails? Because right now they have only continued one set from the future Pine/Pike station up to Madison. Of course up by SCCC they did one set of rails then came back and did the second set, so maybe that’s what they intend to do again. But it seems foolish to block off cross traffic for one set of rails then do it again for a second set.

So it made me wonder if they are planning sections with only one set of rails (I haven’t been able to find any maps with that much detail). That’s what they did with the waterfront streetcar, and they had sections of double track where one streetcar would have to wait for the other coming from the other direction. I don’t know how well that would work with the the First Hill streetcar. The South Lake Union streetcar has separate tracks.

Does anyone know for sure.