As promised, here are more details on the upcoming closure at East Marginal Way/Spokane, as part of the Port of Seattle’s ongoing overpass construction (the project you see on the southeast side of the West Seattle Bridge as you head east), mentioned briefly in our coverage of Wednesday’s Viaduct South Portal Working Group meeting. First, a map:

Per this Port of Seattle news release, the intersection of East Marginal and Spokane will close tomorrow night at 7 pm and stay closed through next Thursday (June 9th):
During this short-term closure, the port will route traffic through the area with the assistance of flaggers and uniformed police. During this period, there will also be intermittent nighttime closures of eastbound lower Spokane between the East Duwamish Waterway and East Marginal Way.
The port scheduled this closure to begin on a Friday night so that staff members can monitor traffic closely and make any necessary adjustments prior to truck traffic increasing again on Monday.
The official name of the $49 million port project, building a flyover to separate vehicle and train traffic, is the East Marginal Way Grade Separation (explained in detail here). Note that this closure is scheduled to end the day before the next Alaskan Way Viaduct shutdown, which is set for 11 pm June 10th through 5 am June 13th. And also note that the news release mentions another closure further north on East Marginal, set to start later this month, related to a separate city project, but not till there’s a “bypass” in place.
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