520 bridge closed for construction this weekend
Jun 1, 2012, 7:34 AM | Updated: 8:47 am
The 520 bridge will be shut down again this weekend.
The Washington State Department of Transportation says it
will close so crews can demolish an Eastside overpass and
install 34 more girders to support a new lid over the
highway in Medina.
The bridge will close at 11:00 p.m. Friday and reopen by
5:00 a.m. Monday. All lanes and ramps will be closed
between
Montlake Boulevard in Seattle and Interstate 405 in
Bellevue.
“Crews are on a tight schedule this weekend,” said Brian
Dobbins, construction manager for the Washington State
Department of Transportation’s SR 520 Eastside Transit and
HOV Project. “Demolition crews have to remove the last
piece
of the old Evergreen Point overpass as quickly as they can
so a huge crane can start placing girders. Some of those
girders weigh 106 tons apiece and crews will be focused on
placing them precisely.”
WSDOT says the 108th Avenue Northeast on-ramp to eastbound
SR 520 will remain open to traffic. Two sections of SR 520
will remain open to traffic: I-5 to Montlake Boulevard and
areas east of I-405.
To accommodate extra traffic on I-90, WSDOT is changing
the express lanes schedule. The lanes will be open
westbound from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and eastbound after 3 p.m.
both days this weekend.
