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The closure will allow crews to work on the I-405/Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project. The project website says it has a 10-year timeline and began in 2015.
Average daily traffic volumes on I-405 in 2016 ranged from a minimum of 76,000 at its southern terminus in Tukwila to 209,000 in Downtown Bellevue. [6] Approximately 86 percent of peak-direction lane miles on I-405 are rated as "routinely congested" by WSDOT and the highway accounted for over 30 percent of delays on the Seattle area's urban ...
[10] [11] SR 900 then continues east, around the northwest side of Liberty Park, before turning north to briefly parallel I-405 after its interchange with SR 169. [12] The highway then joins I-405 in a short concurrency for 0.90 miles (1.45 km), [1] [13] [14] traveling east through Renton's suburbs towards the East Renton Highlands.
High-occupancy toll lanes on I-405 from Bellevue to Lynnwood; State Route 99 tunnel on SR 99 in Seattle; Tolls on all highways except the Tacoma Narrows Bridge are variable, depending on the time of day. For HOT lane systems (also known as express toll lanes), tolls are set within a minimum and maximum value, and vary based on current traffic ...
Holiday traffic building up along the 405 Freeway on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times)
The highway, also known as the Maple Valley Highway, functions as a major rural and suburban route for the southeastern Seattle metropolitan area and connects several highways, including SR 410, SR 18, and Interstate 405 (I-405). The Enumclaw–Maple Valley–Renton highway was built in 1914 and expanded in the early 1930s by the county government.
The first auxiliary route to be fully completed was I-405, which was opened to traffic between Woodinville and Lynnwood in November 1969. [37] The state government made improvements to the expanding Interstate system in the 1960s and 1970s, building rest areas and scenic overlooks on the primary routes and introducing mileage-based exit numbers ...
SR 522 is maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), which conducts an annual survey on the state's highways to measure traffic volume in terms of annual average daily traffic. In 2016, WSDOT calculated that 96,000 vehicles used SR 522 at its interchange with I-405 and 12,000 vehicles used it at its eastern ...