Sunday’s outage
Failure in the underground electrical system near Capitol Hill Station caused a limited but significant outage Sunday.
It took Seattle City Light crews most of the day to restore power to the more than 400 customer sites that went dark including multiple area businesses and the traffic lights at the busy Broadway and John intersection.
A City Light spokesperson said the outage was due to “a piece of connection equipment that failed in the underground system” near E Thomas and Harvard. CHS has asked for more information and if the damage was weather related. UPDATE: City Light says the the failure was likely not weather-related.
The area of Sunday’s outage is near the site of a damaging electrical vault fire below Broadway in July.
Capitol Hill Station service continued on a day that was already quieter than normal as Sound Transit had announced no trains between Broadway and the Stadium stop due to planned maintenance over the weekend.
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