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Drivers in the Puget Sound are inching closer to a season of traffic jams. Washington State Department of Transportation has several construction projects currently in the works or planned for summer.
Dec. 4—OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Transportation held a virtual public meeting Thursday regarding its draft for the 2024 Highway System Plan update. According to the plan ...
The State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.The 2-mile (3.2 km), double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north.
The traffic signal was intended to be an interim solution until a flyover ramp connecting to eastbound SR 512 could be constructed with additional funding, which had not been granted. [79] WSDOT has studied additional projects to address congestion on sections of SR 512, particularly near I-5 and the South Hill Mall.
STP presented a $1.09 billion plan to use a 58-foot-diameter (18 m) tunnel boring machine, the world's widest, to complete the tunnel by late 2015. [187] WSDOT signed the tunnel construction contract in January 2011, sending a set of contractor agreements to the city council for approval. [188]
Jun. 7—If you find the stoplights installed on a number of downtown Interstate 90 ramps frustrating, brace yourself for some bad news: More are coming. Two months after activating the ramp ...
A combined state department of transportation was proposed in the mid-1960s and gained the support of Governor Dan Evans. [10] Charles Prahl, who resigned as head of the Department of Highways, criticized the Evans administration's proposal to create a transportation "superagency" and the prioritization of rapid transit in plans for the urban transportation system of Seattle. [11]
A new roundabout is being planned by WSDOT to replace an existing traffic signal at the Bethel Avenue, Bay Street and Maple Avenue intersection.