{"id":992716,"date":"2008-05-29T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T22:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/blog\/?page_id=716"},"modified":"2019-08-09T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:52:45","slug":"state-route-99-sr-523-to-sr-509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=992716","title":{"rendered":"State Route 99, SR 523 to SR 509"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Driven July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>40.43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and N 145th St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after SR 523 as we enter Seattle<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>39.66<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and 130th St N, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after 130th St N<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>38.45<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and N Northgate Way, Seattle<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Northgate Way heads over to I-5 and NSCC<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>38.07<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N an N 97th St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after a few blocks without one. Note the humourous marquee on the insurance agency<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>37.58<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and N 85th St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Turn left to take 85th St to I-5<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>37.27<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and N 80th St Seattle<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0N 80th St heads over to I-5 as we head through the Green Lake district<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>36.14<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and N 59th St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Turn right to head into the Woodland Park Zoo, reassurance shield as we pass through the Woodland Park<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>34.74<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and 38th St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after 38th St.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>34.7<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and 38th Ave, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield a few feet later.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

(Historic Photo: March 2008<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>34.04<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and Dexter Ave N, Seattle<\/p>\n

Exit for Dexter Avenue. We’ll get our first VMS for the upcoming 99 tunnel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>33.3<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and Prospect St, Seattle<\/p>\n

1\/2 mile to the new SR 99 Tunnel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>33.1<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Aurora Ave N and Ward St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this sign dates back to the Battery Street Tunnel but is still applicable with the new tunnel.\u00a0Beyond this point, SR 99 enters a new alignment through downtown. To see a few pictures from the old viaduct routing as of March 2008, visit\u00a0this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>:\u00a0 SR 99 and 6th Ave, Seattle<\/p>\n

SRWeb hasn’t been updated with the new mileposts at the time I drove this in July 2019, but this is the entrance to the new 99 tunnel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 99 and Royal Brougham Way, Seattle<\/p>\n

In a mile we’ll approach an exit to I-5 and I-90. I like the Burma Shave signs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 99 and Royal Brougham Way, Seattle<\/p>\n

Exit ahead for I-90 and I-5 as we come out of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 99 and Royal Brougham Way, Seattle<\/p>\n

When I drove this in July 2019 they hadn’t started tolling yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(Historic Photo: March 2008<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

MP:\u00a0<\/strong> 29.04<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Alaskan Way Viaduct and S Spokane St, Seattle<\/p>\n

BGS assembly. Exit to jump on the West Seattle Bridge, stay straight for SR 99 to turn into Marginal Way<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>28.89<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: E Marginal Way S and SW Spokane St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after Spokane St and the West Seattle Bridge<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(Historic Photo: March 2008<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>27.61<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: E Marginal Way S and Lucile St, Seattle<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after Lucile St as we head south out of town<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>27.35<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: E Marginal Way S and 1st Ave S, Seattle<\/p>\n

Trailblazer for Freeway SR 509 coming up pretty soon<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

MP:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 27.31<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: E Marginal Way S and 1st Ave S, Seattle<\/p>\n

Stay straight to merge onto 1st Ave S to head into South Seattle<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>27.16<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: 1st Ave S and E Marginal Way S, Seattle<\/p>\n

As we cross over the 1st Ave S drawbridge we approach JCT SR 509. This carriageway continues as SR 509 south to Burien while SR 99 weaves around onto another freeway turns into SR 599. SR 99 will dead end only to resume on International Blvd and SR 518 in the city of Seatac<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MP: <\/strong>26.72<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 99 and SR 509, Seattle<\/p>\n

SR 99 exits, heads south to SR 599. SR 509 heads down to Burien and Des Moines<\/p>\n

\"\" S to SR 599<\/a>, N to SR 104<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" S to SR 518<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" E to I-5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Driven July 2019 MP: 40.43 Location: Aurora Ave N and N 145th St, Seattle Reassurance shield after SR 523 as we enter Seattle MP: 39.66 Location: Aurora Ave N and 130th St N, Seattle Reassurance shield after 130th St N \u00c2\u00a0 MP: 38.45 Location: Aurora Ave N and N Northgate Way, Seattle \u00c2\u00a0Northgate Way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}