Sen. Cantwell tours West Seattle Bridge damage, hears plan for repairs
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) got a firsthand look Wednesday at the damage that forced the West Seattle Bridge to close more than a year ago.
The senator visited the bridge with U.S. Deputy Transportation Director Polly Trottenberg and representatives from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to see the work being done underneath the bridge.
The high-rise portion of the bridge closed to traffic in March 2020, after small cracks were found in the concrete, exposing structural problems. SDOT said when the cracks migrated up the wall of the base of the span, that's when the concern level escalated.
Matt Donahue with SDOT said his department has engineered a solution involving "post tensioning" which will add compression into the concrete and pull the bridge back together.
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