construction season
 

2 routes that I take are currently completely blocked off by construction (one of them never to reopen unfortunately), one is fenced off but they left a little patch of grass around the edge that I can use to hug the fence and still get to where I'm going (I don't know right now if they're going to reopen that one or just extend the fence so it's completely inaccessable), and a 4th location where they're putting apparently an epic traffic circle in, they diverted the whole road into a jug-handle diversion to the right which is big enough and construction is going long enough that they actually painted bike lanes onto it. In the end, at that particular site, the diversion confuses the cars and slows them down enough that it's much easier for me to navigate the intersection right now than it was earlier in the summer. But I only have about one more week of routinely using that route.

They've ripped up the Lake Washington trail for a short distance just south of Coal Creek to put in drainage for the changes they're making on 405 above. For a while, it was just narrowed down but now it's loose gravel that you pretty much have to walk through. Not bad and not long, but this was a *fast* part of the trail I used to just bomb through. The construction guys say it'll be back at the end of September.

Where are these routes that you speak of? Just curious as it will give others a heads up when/if they're in those areas.

My commute gets worse by the week, but only the last few blocks. The whole intersection I work at is being torn up and blocked off a little bit more each time, as part of the work on the Spokane St. Viaduct. Can't even get Eastbound on Spokane from 1st to 4th anymore. All the detours are treacherous construction zones too, because 1st Ave is all torn up as well. Should be done by 2012 or some such thing...

Around Olympia/Lacey. Everything has pretty easily detectable workarounds, I'm just aware of having to work around a lot of locations lately...

Amen! Just an FYI for you. The 2012 date is just for that section of the "viaduct approach" to Royal Brougham. After that's all done and the tunnel is done, only then will they start on the waterfront. The full contstruction should last until approximately 2016!