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Public hearing Thursday night for
South Park Bridge options

King County will host a public meeting this week on the alternatives for rehabilitating or replacing the South Park Bridge on 14th/16th Avenue between Seattle and Tukwila. The meeting will be held:

Thursday, Nov. 3
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Concord Elementary School gymnasium
723 S. Concord St., Seattle

This meeting will be a drop-in, open-house format, and comments and testimony will be taken throughout the full three hours of this meeting. A Spanish-language interpreter also will be available to assist those who wish ask questions or provide testimony in Spanish.
 
The King County Road Services Division has been working on plans to preserve the crossing over the Duwamish River for several years. The condition of the 75-year-old span between Seattle and Tukwila has severely deteriorated, and was made worse during the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake. King County is proceeding with an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process that will allow a decision to be made regarding the future of the bridge. The crossing is used by an average of 20,000 vehicles a day, and has a moveable span that opens to accommodate large marine vessels on the river.

The estimated costs for a bridge replacement or rehabilitation range from $74 million to $90 million. Five alternatives are currently being studied as part of the EIS process.

The draft EIS is available online in a .pdf format. A Spanish-language Web page is also available at that same Web site.

Updated:  November 01, 2005

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