Schedule changes for holiday weekend
What’s open, closed today
• Banks and credit unions closed. They’ll be open regular hours Friday, and those with Saturday hours will be open Saturday.
• Most city, county and state offices closed. Some government offices also will be closed Friday. State Department of Licensing offices closed today and Friday, but some will be open Saturday. Information is online at www.dol.wa.gov/ds/holidays.htm.
• Post offices closed, with no delivery except express mail. Regular mail delivery will resume Friday.
• Public libraries, state liquor stores and schools closed. Liquor stores will be open regular hours on Friday and through the weekend.
• Garbage, recycling and yard-waste pickup for Seattle residents suspended today; pickups are scheduled Friday for households usually served today; regular Friday collection will be Saturday. Seattle’s recycling and disposal stations closed today but open on Friday. The same schedule will be followed for Waste Management and Allied Waste customers.
• Most downtown stores and mall retailers closed. Friday is a big shopping day, and many stores are posting extended hours. Premium Outlets in Tulalip and Factory Stores in North Bend open at midnight to kick off the holiday-shopping season.
• Parking meters are free today, peak-hour parking restrictions still will be in effect.
Getting around
• Metro Transit buses are on Sunday schedules today. Metro buses will run a reduced weekday schedule Friday, with some commuter routes and trips in Seattle’s University District canceled. Metro customer-service offices closed today and Friday.
• Sound Transit Express, Snohomish County’s Community Transit and Pierce Transit bus service are on Sunday schedule today and on regular schedule Friday. Pierce Transit’s local service is free today. Sound Transit will offer special midday runs Friday, leaving Tacoma at 9:30 a.m. and Seattle at 2:30 p.m. Community Transit will cancel its Boeing-Everett commuter service Friday.
Weekend traffic tips
• Holiday-season events, including Macy’s nontraditional day-after Thanksgiving Day parade, will cause some traffic diversions in the downtown Seattle core Friday.
Macy’s Holiday Parade is to kick off at 8:45 a.m. from Seventh Avenue at Pine Street. The parade will head west to Fifth Avenue, then south to University Street, then west to Fourth Avenue, and north to the Westlake Center area, on the east side of Macy’s downtown flagship store.
The parade route and streets in between will be closed to through traffic from about 8:30 to 11 a.m. In addition, the exit from southbound Interstate 5 to Union Street, near the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, will be closed from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Parade planners say up to 35,000 spectators are anticipated.
Later in the day, more than 10,000 spectators are expected to fill Westlake Plaza for the also-traditional Westlake tree-lighting celebration, scheduled from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Streets funneling traffic to the plaza will be cordoned off from about 4:45 to 6 p.m.
On Friday, some transit buses in downtown Seattle will be rerouted all day because of the parade and the tree lighting. Regular transit service will be shifted from Fourth and Fifth avenues onto Third Avenue during the event, and bus service on Pine Street also will be affected.
• Saturday is the 100th Apple Cup, with the Huskies and Cougars at Husky Stadium. In addition to regular Metro service to and from the Montlake-area stadium, there will be free shuttle service between the stadium and eight park-and-ride lots: Shoreline, Northgate Transit Center, Houghton, Kingsgate, South Kirkland, Eastgate, South Renton and Federal Way. Show a game ticket or ticket stub for a free ride on regular bus service or the special shuttles.
• The Seattle Marathon on Sunday will close streets, delay traffic and force some transit services to be rerouted along its course. The express lanes on the Interstate 90 Floating Bridge will be closed for several hours, and bus service will be affected by temporary reroutes and schedule delays when marathon participants are on the course. Most traffic disruptions will end by 10 a.m., but some areas - especially around Seattle Center where the race starts and ends - may be affected until midafternoon.
Here & Now is compiled by Seattle Times lead news assistant Lynne Berry. To submit an item, e-mail herenow@seattletimes.com or call 206-464-2226.
Nov. 24, 1971: On that dark and stormy night, a daring skyjacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” commandeered a Northwest Airlines 727 shortly after it took off from Portland for Seattle. After collecting a ransom of $200,000 and four parachutes in Seattle, the skyjacker (erroneously dubbed “D.B. Cooper” by the media) directed the crew to fly to Mexico. Somewhere over Southwest Washington, the plane’s tail stairway was lowered and he leaped into the rainy night. On Feb. 10, 1980, an 8-year-old boy discovered $5,800 of Cooper’s loot while digging in a sandbar on the Columbia River. In 1990, Duane Weber told his wife, Jo, that he was “Dan Cooper” as he lay dying in a hospital, but the FBI discounted the confession.
No other trace of the skyjacker - dead or alive - has ever been found.
Source: Historylink.org