This week, things get moving Friday with the 3-day Seattle Home Show (20,000 people expected daily); Saturday with a Huskies Kick-off (65,000 people expected); and several traffic impacts through the weekend! With one no longer planned: Rainier Ave S @ I-90 closures are canceled!
Friday, October 19
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Seattle Home Show at CenturyLink Field Event Center: Hundreds of home and garden displays; “Meet the Experts” seminars; building products and materials information; plus, arts & crafts and home decorating. Event hours: 10 AM – 6 PM. Estimated attendance: 20,000.
Saturday, October 20
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Making Strides of Seattle: 3-mile fundraising walk to fight breast cancer. Walk will start and finish at Gas Works Park. Route will use streets and trails to the west of the park. Event hours: 9 AM – 11 AM. Estimated attendance: 1,450.
Seattle Home Show at CenturyLink Field Event Center: Event hours: 10 AM – 6 PM. Estimated attendance: 20,000.
A21 Walk for Freedom: Walk to bring awareness to the issue of human trafficking. Participants to march N on sidewalks along 1st Ave from 2700 1st Ave to Pike St, and back. Event hours: 10:45 AM – 12:30 PM. Estimated attendance: 275.
Washington Huskies vs. Colorado Buffalos: Homecoming game at Husky Stadium. Kickoff: 12:30 PM. Estimated attendance: 65,000.
SeaCompression 2018: A Space Odyssea: Official annual decompression party for the Burning Man community of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region, at Seattle Design Center. Event hours: 2 PM – 2 AM. Estimated attendance: 2,000.
Sunday, October 21
Seattle Home Show at CenturyLink Field Event Center: Hundreds of home and garden displays; “Meet the Experts” seminars; building products and materials information; plus, arts & crafts and home decorating. Event hours: 10 AM – 6 PM. Estimated attendance: 20,000.
October 20:
- 2nd Ave reduced to one lane, Pine St to Pike St, for State Hotel crane work (protected bike lane remains open).
October 19 – 21:
- EB Pike St, between 1st and 2nd, closed all weekend for concrete panel replacement in the State Hotel project.
October 19 – 22:
- SR 99 fully closed, Fri 9 PM – Sat 5 PM, from the West Seattle Bridge to the Battery St tunnel.
- SR 99 SB closed, through 5 AM Mon, from West Seattle Bridge to Battery Street Tunnel.
Rainier Ave S at I-90 closed Fri 11 PM – Mon 5 AM, along with WB I-90 off-ramp to SB Rainier; closure for Sound Transit East Link construction work. Traffic will be detoured to 23rd Ave S and to MLK Way S.This Rainier Ave S work is now canceled!
In the pipeline…
October 28: Westlake Ave N SB lanes closed at Mercer St and SLU Streetcar will not operate. Seattle Public Utilities is installing a water service connection for the 201 Westlake Ave N development (future 7-story Citizen M hotel). Vehicles will be detoured to Dexter and Fairview.
Other event/construction info…
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