May 2, 2007
Fun times in Seattle - University Bridge sinkhole
From the Seattle Times:Pipe break, sinkhole keep University Bridge closedA lot of people without water and unable to get out or home. The pipe was installed in 1912.
The University Bridge will remain closed at least through the evening commute after a street south of the bridge collapsed this morning when a large water main broke and sent two cars into a sinkhole.
Gregg Hirakawa, spokesman for the Seattle Department of Transportation, said the bridge will stay closed as workers try to remove the two cars. It has proven difficult because there isn't enough room under the bridge to get a tow truck to the vehicles. A backhoe was brought in to try to extract the vehicles.
The bridge was closed around 7:45 a.m., disrupting the morning commute and forcing Metro Transit to reroute buses.
No one was injured as a result of the pipe break and the sinkhole.
The 24-inch-diameter water main gave way just a week after road workers broke a water main on Dexter Avenue in the South Lake Union neighborhood, although this latest break was not related to construction.
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