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Battery Street Tunnel
Photos
Approach View Of South Tunnel Portal, Looking East From Southbound Lanes.
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #197274
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under city streets on WA 99 in Seattle
- Location
- King County, Washington
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1954
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 2,140.2 ft. (0.4 mi.)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.61892, -122.34361 (decimal degrees)
47°37'08" N, 122°20'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/549322/5274154 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Seattle South
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 4,279
- Inventory number
- BH 34261 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2015)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 70.2 (out of 100)
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Related Bridges
- Alaskan Way Viaduct (Same project) - Connects to Battery Street Tunnel
Sources
- K. A. Erickson
- HAER WA-184 - Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King, WA
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Posted 12/10/2019 HistoryLink.org Essay 20937
At 10 p.m. on Friday, February 1, 2019, the Battery Street Tunnel, which connects the Alaskan Way Viaduct to Aurora Avenue underneath Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, is permanently closed to traffic. Along with the venerable Alaskan Way Viaduct, both having been replaced by the new State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel, 2-miles long,in a double-decker tunnel configuration which carries a section of State Route 99 under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north. It opened to traffic on February 4, 2019.