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Push notifications

Get a notification when a Seattle bridge goes up

Pick the bridges you cross. One push the moment one goes up.

The app

Seattle Drawbridges

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.

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Alerts are part of Premium, $9.99 a year or $0.99 a month, in the free Seattle Drawbridges app. It watches the five bridges Seattle publishes and sends a push the minute one you follow goes up. Checks run every two minutes, so it can lag a little.

Which bridges

Ballard Bridge, Fremont Bridge, Montlake Bridge, First Avenue South Bridge, South Park Bridge. University Bridge and Southwest Spokane Street Bridge have no live feed, so no alert can exist for them. The app says so instead of pretending.

Pause

Off for an hour, for the rest of the morning, or for a week. Alerts never fire while paused and pick up on their own afterward.

What leaves your phone

A push token, the bridges you chose and your alert settings, stored on the MileCheck server so it can notify you. Turn alerts off and they are removed. Your location never leaves the phone.

Questions

How fast is the alert after a bridge goes up?

Within about two minutes. That is how often the feed is checked.

Can I get alerts for the University Bridge?

No. Seattle publishes no live status for it, and an alert without a feed would be a guess.

Does the app track where I am?

No. Alerts are by bridge, not by location. Your location is used only on the map on your phone and never sent anywhere.

Seattle Drawbridges

Free, 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.

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Live status from Seattle DOT via the MileCheck API. Opening rules from 33 CFR 117, the federal drawbridge regulations. Not affiliated with the City of Seattle, WSDOT or the Coast Guard.