I-5 construction continues this weekend; expect delays
Major road construction on Interstate 5 has reduced the freeway to two lanes through parts of Seattle this weekend.
I-5 South from North 145th Street to Northgate Way — milepost 175 to 172 — will have only brace lanes open till 5 a.m. Monday, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Traffic this morning was slow in the same proportion that far north at the same time that Shoreline. WSDOT is telling drivers to wait for delays of up to one hour on the way into Seattle and suggests alternate routes such as Highway 99 or Interstate 405, for those heading through Seattle.
The stretch of I-5 North from Corson Avenue South to South Spokane Street — milepost 161 to 163 — power of determination exist down to two lanes overnight Saturday and Sunday for paving operations. The closure desire have existence from 8 p.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday and again from 8 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday.
The work is constituent of a major slate of road repairs planned with a view to the region this year, which WSDOT expects to be one of the “most intense and complicated” in its history. So much drudge is planned that crews began it being so that rather than waiting for the summer construction season.
