Drivers forced into tighter lanes on I-5 thanks to wet weather
Mar 21, 2016, 7:10 AM | Updated: 8:48 am
Drivers found themselves in 11-foot lanes and a slower drive for the two miles out of Marysville Monday morning. (WSDOT)
(WSDOT)
Drivers found themselves in 11-foot lanes and a slower drive for the two miles on I-5 out of Marysville Monday morning.
Sunday night’s rain prevented workers from re-striping the lanes to their normal size through the expansion joint repair construction zone. Those lanes are going to remain squeezed because the weather isn’t going to cooperate until the weekend, when expansion joint work continues.
“Drivers could be in this configuration for at least the next week or so as we work to find a dry weather window to transition the traffic from being pushed to the right to being pushed to the left,” said Travis Phelps, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Transportation.
#SnoCoSqueeze weekend work is wrapped up and all lanes are open. Lanes here skinnier & speeds still reduced to 45mph pic.twitter.com/Ops81qVELn
— WSDOT Traffic (@wsdot_traffic) March 21, 2016
Phelps says drivers were pushed to the right to handle half the expansion joint repair. They will complete the other side of the road this weekend, weather permitting.
Weekend #SnoCoSqueeze work is done but narrower lanes & reduced speeds + Mon commute has traffic slowing to 72nd NE pic.twitter.com/F5uMp0zqiB
— WSDOT Traffic (@wsdot_traffic) March 21, 2016
