Weekend traffic guide: 520 bridge closures
Feb 24, 2012, 11:33 AM | Updated: 12:41 pm
The 520 bridge will be closed to drivers this weekend while crews install 40 concrete girders. (WSDOT Flickr)
(WSDOT Flickr)
The 520 bridge will be closed to drivers this weekend while crews install 40 concrete girders.
“Construction is going to shut down the bridge and the highway starting at 11pm Friday,” said Jeff Switzer with Washington State Department of Transportation.
He says they will open and extend Express Lanes on I-90 so drivers can get in and out of downtown. Ramps will close at 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, between Montlake Boulevard in Seattle and Interstate 405 in Bellevue. Bellevue Way will close from 11 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday between Northeast 32nd Place and Northup Way.
The bridge and ramps will open back up at 5:00 a.m. Monday morning.
Crews will install 40 concrete girders to support future lids and overpasses above 520.
Details from WSDOT:
– All ramps and mainline SR 520 will close between Montlake Boulevard in Seattle and I-405 in Bellevue from 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, to 5 a.m. Monday, Feb 27.
– Bellevue Way will close from 11 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday between Northeast 32nd Place and Northup Way, in Bellevue.
– The 108th Avenue Northeast on-ramp to eastbound SR 520 will remain open to drivers.
– Two sections of SR 520 remain open to traffic: I-5 to Montlake Boulevard, and east of I-405.
