Weekend traffic guide: 520 closed in both directions
Apr 27, 2012, 8:23 AM | Updated: 8:36 am
The 520 bridge and ramps will be closed all weekend while
crews move 42 concrete girders into position.
Drivers will have to drive around the lake or use I-90
between 11:00pm Friday, April 27 and 5:00am Monday, April
30.
WSDOT expects the heaviest travel times on alternate
routes will be midday Saturday and Sunday.
About 150 construction workers will set the 1,400 ton
girders, install almost 1,00 feet of drainage pipes, and
complete demolition of the Evergreen Point Road overpass.
“After this weekend, we will have installed more than 100
girders at the four overpasses we’re improving as part of
this project,” said Brian Dobbins, construction engineer
for the Washington State Department of Transportation.
“That’s a great milestone, but we still have a lot of work
between now and December 2013 to finish improving the SR
520 corridor with six lanes, transit stops and lidded
overpasses.”
SR 520 closure details:
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.
