Every Seattle drawbridge on one page. Live status for the five the city publishes, the federal opening rule for all seven, and no guessing when the feed goes quiet.
Free: see which bridge is up at a glance. Premium, $9.99 a year or $0.99 a month, unlocks every bridge's own page: live status, the rule, alerts and more. No ads in the app.
Join the iOS beta Android coming soonFree, at a glance: which of the five monitored bridges is up right now, and for how long. Premium, $9.99 a year or $0.99 a month, unlocks every bridge's own page: its opening rule, its live status detail, a push when a bridge you chose goes up, the lift history MileCheck keeps for it, and four more colour schemes. No account needed. No ads in the app. Your location stays on your phone.
When each bridge opens · Rush hour · Night openings · How long a lift takes
15th Ave NW over the Ship Canal. Live status.
Fremont Ave N over the Ship Canal. Live status.
Eastlake Ave E over the Ship Canal. No live feed.
Montlake Blvd over the Ship Canal. Live status.
SR 99 / 1st Ave S over the Duwamish. Live status.
14th Ave S over the Duwamish. Live status.
SW Spokane St over the Duwamish. No live feed.
Seattle DOT publishes the state of five bridges. MileCheck reads it every two minutes, stamps the moment a bridge goes up and the moment it comes down, and keeps the log. That is where "up for 9 min" comes from. The city's feed has no timestamps of its own.
The opening rules are federal law, 33 CFR 117, quoted word for word on each bridge page and put in plain words above it.
Seattle Drawbridges carries all seven bridges. The Now screen names which is up, free, at a glance. Premium, $9.99 a year or $0.99 a month, unlocks each bridge's own page: its rule, its live status, a push when a bridge goes up, its lift history and more colours. It never says a bridge is closed when nobody is publishing its status.
Five: Ballard, Fremont, Montlake, 1st Ave S and South Park. Seattle DOT publishes their up or down state. University Bridge and the SW Spokane St swing bridge are not in the feed, so no app or website can show them live.
Most lifts are over inside 15 minutes. A sailboat takes a few minutes; a tug with a tow or a run of boats on a summer weekend takes longer. The app times each opening and shows how long it has been up.
Usually not for small boats. Weekdays the Ship Canal bridges do not have to open 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. (Montlake has longer hours). Large vessels, 1,000 tons and up, get an opening at any time.
Seattle's feed has no timestamps. When it reports no bridge movement for over 12 hours we stop calling it current, because five busy bridges do not sit still that long. "No live reading" is honest. "All down" would be a guess.
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