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Assigned to pick up the lunch run? If so, avoid the Aurora Bridge at all costs today till 2 p.m. The Seattle Department of Transportation has closed down the two northbound lanes on the Aurora Bridge, leaving the right lane open for traffic. The bridge's expansion joints are undergoing an emergency round of temporary repairs.

"Lines&Patterns diptych" by duna12 ( Kelly Johnson), from the Seattlest Flickr pool

We brought it up a couple days ago, some time after MyBallard, HorsesAss, and Crosscut hit it, but apparently following snow-plowing in the wake of December's Snowpocalypse, the lines and "road turtles" dividing lanes on the Aurora Bridge and elsewhere disappeared. Apparently the plows just plain chopped them off. However, we've just received word from former Seattlest editor Seth that SDOT is . Can anyone offer confirmation?

We first noticed it a few weeks ago and assumed that maybe all the gravel they threw down on the road was obscuring the lines, but this weekend we again made a rare trip up to Fremont on Highway 99 across the Aurora Bridge and, no joke, the line separating the right-most lane from the center lane appears to be gone. The painted lines have disappeared, and all that remains of the reflectors are gouges in the asphalt, both north- and south-bound.

"steel" by Margaret Sunshine

Traffic was snarled on Aurora for about two hours this morning, as police closed lanes to try to talk down a man threatening to jump from the Aurora Bridge. The P-I says he is in his mid-30s, fell 150 feet into a parking lot, and survived the fall. He was alive when taken to the hospital--probably Harborview, we imagine. This local blogger saw the traffic jam and wondered how hard it would be to justify increasing mental health coverage, given the cost of the stalled commute. But we seem more likely to build a fence instead.

"Bridge" by Todd Burke

When we wrote about the proposed "suicide prevention fence" for the Aurora Bridge back in July, several of you had a lot to say about it. If you still feel as strongly about the proposed multi-million dollar jumper barrier, head down to Seattle Pacific University's Otto Miller Hall tonight and attend a public meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. to discuss the fence.

The Aurora Bridge has a long tragic history of being the final structure some hopeless Seattleites ever stand upon. Since its opening in 1932, more than 200 people have jumped to their death from the bridge. It is second only to the Golden Gate Bridge in suicide deaths. Now it would seem those who live around the bridge, and the state of Washington, have decided to do something about that.

Our quest to make it from Renton to Ballard for happy hour was nearly dashed yesterday because some drunken idiot craving attention almost jumped off the Aurora Bridge.

By hurling themselves to their deaths over the Aurora Bridge, local Grumpy Guses have area workers miffed.

Sarah Edwards drives on the left side of the street near her office because the body of a suicide from the bridge towering above once crashed onto the hood of a co-worker's car.

Continue reading "Can't These Damn Suicide Jumpers Show a Little Consideration?"

About a year ago Seattlest drove down to San Francisco and saw some of the touristy sights -the most mainstream among them being the bridge they've got down there: Golden something-or-other. It was cool. It's a great bridge and there are some pretty neat views available from it if you walk out there, and walking out there is generally encouraged by the wide walking path. One of the things that struck us as being particularly photo-worthy, though, was the emergency telephone we passed by. "If you're about to jump pick up the phone," or something like that it said. The Golden Gate is San Francisco's suicide hotspot.

Listen, you remember the last time you had a great idea. You sat down and sketched it out, outlined the plot, and wrote treatment after treatment. Then some Bobby-Evans-type said, "Kid, I like your stuff," a year-and-a-half later Tim Allen signed on in the lead, and after the three-day crying jag you nearly drove off the Aurora Bridge.

What is the newcomer visitor's impression of our fair city? To get an idealistic, naive, oddly balanced, yet sentimentally contemplative exposition on what and how Seattle impresses the self aware and unrushed foreign visitor, you've got to read the opening section of this piece** in the Atlantic Monthly (June 2005).

Seattlest likes north Aurora unsavory. It gives us a sense of where things stand; a zero to start from when measuring the ebb and flood of everyday life. Of course we don't live up there or anything or, for that matter, go there much. I think we may have atttempted to get to Shoreline once by that route, but finally turned back before reaching it. Too far.