Yesterday we got great news: the construction contractor completed the final pour of structural concrete inside the West Seattle Bridge!
SDOT’s announcement notes they:
“…still expect to reopen the bridge in mid-2022 and can now work with our construction contractor to finalize the sequence of the remaining work…This week’s deliveries involved concrete trucks making back-to-back pours. Our construction contractor poured 15 truckloads of concrete in two days, more than half of the 245 cubic yards of structural concrete needed for the entire project.”
I am so grateful that the concrete drivers put aside their contract dispute to enable projects like the West Seattle Bridge to move forward again. They accepted the offer of the concrete suppliers to return to work as a “leap of faith” and “in hopes that a continuation of bargaining will produce an Agreement once and for all.”
I know many people are going to write in response to this newsletter in order to ask what day the bridge is opening. The next meeting of the West Seattle Bridge Community Task Force is scheduled for June 9th and SDOT says that they will make an update on timeline then.
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