The I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector in Renton is opening to traffic as early as next week
By Victoria Miller
Attention I-405/SR 167 hall drivers! We are wrapping up work at the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project and the flyover ramp can be open to site visitors as early because the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Yes, you learn that correctly! The construction you've got considered over the earlier NULL years at this busy interchange is nearing its end.
The Direct Connector undertaking broke floor in September 2016 and was originally scheduled to open to site visitors in spring 2019. “With the financial savings from our earlier I-405 hall projects, we have been capable to boost layout engineering and acquire the proper of method crucial to leap construction once we obtained funding from the Connecting Washington funding package,” stated I-405/SR 167 Program Administrator Kim Henry. “Thanks to drivers’ endurance and the undertaking team’s difficult work, we're happy to entire this improvement 4 months forward of schedule.”
The 2015 Connecting Washington funding package deal deal is a $16 billion multimodal investment to increase the statewide transportation machine and hold extreme infrastructure.
The Direct Connector is the primary part of the upcoming I-405 Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project, that may assist to increase site visitors operations during the corridor. The Renton to Bellevue undertaking will upload an further lane in each one direction of I-405 among Renton and Bellevue, rebuild a couple of interchanges and construct infrastructure for Sound Transit’s Bus Rapid Transit system. The work also makes further improvements similar to southbound auxiliary lanes from I-90 to Lake Washington Boulevard Southeast in Newcastle, and from Northeast 44th Street to Northeast 30th Street in Renton. The Renton to Bellevue undertaking encompasses the stretch of roadway that may entire a 40-mile exhibit toll lanes machine among the Pierce County line on SR 167 and I-5 in Lynnwood. The Direct Connector is the extreme element in connecting the High Occupancy Toll lanes on SR 167 to the destiny exhibit toll lanes on I-405.
Until the Renton to Bellevue undertaking is complete, the brand new 1,500-foot-long flyover ramp will serve carpools from northbound SR 167 to northbound I-405, and carpools from southbound I-405 to southbound SR 167. The ramp will function as a 2+ excessive occupancy automobile lane from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. each one day, permitting single occupancy automobiles to make use of the ramp backyard of those hours. To read extra concerning the HOV methods and carpool rules, go to our HOV lanes page.
We may be retaining a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 19, the earliest day we plan for the ramp to open to traffic. Once the orange site visitors barrels foremost as much because the bottom of every on-ramp are gone, the ramp may be competent to use! However, as a result of the recent climate forecast, we are able to supply an replace if conditions require rescheduling establishing the ramp to traffic.
While we plan for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector flyover ramp to be operationally competent as early as subsequent week, please maintain in thoughts there will nonetheless be a few overnight closures because the mission crew completes paving work into the spring.
To reside as much as date at the newest construction closure news for the project, please go to the I-405 Construction Updates web page and the King County Construction Updates page.
Attention I-405/SR 167 hall drivers! We are wrapping up work at the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project and the flyover ramp can be open to site visitors as early because the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Yes, you learn that correctly! The construction you've got considered over the earlier NULL years at this busy interchange is nearing its end.
The Direct Connector undertaking broke floor in September 2016 and was originally scheduled to open to site visitors in spring 2019. “With the financial savings from our earlier I-405 hall projects, we have been capable to boost layout engineering and acquire the proper of method crucial to leap construction once we obtained funding from the Connecting Washington funding package,” stated I-405/SR 167 Program Administrator Kim Henry. “Thanks to drivers’ endurance and the undertaking team’s difficult work, we're happy to entire this improvement 4 months forward of schedule.”
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| The groundbreaking ceremony for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project was held on Sept. 29, 2016. |
The 2015 Connecting Washington funding package deal deal is a $16 billion multimodal investment to increase the statewide transportation machine and hold extreme infrastructure.
The Direct Connector is the primary part of the upcoming I-405 Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project, that may assist to increase site visitors operations during the corridor. The Renton to Bellevue undertaking will upload an further lane in each one direction of I-405 among Renton and Bellevue, rebuild a couple of interchanges and construct infrastructure for Sound Transit’s Bus Rapid Transit system. The work also makes further improvements similar to southbound auxiliary lanes from I-90 to Lake Washington Boulevard Southeast in Newcastle, and from Northeast 44th Street to Northeast 30th Street in Renton. The Renton to Bellevue undertaking encompasses the stretch of roadway that may entire a 40-mile exhibit toll lanes machine among the Pierce County line on SR 167 and I-5 in Lynnwood. The Direct Connector is the extreme element in connecting the High Occupancy Toll lanes on SR 167 to the destiny exhibit toll lanes on I-405.
Until the Renton to Bellevue undertaking is complete, the brand new 1,500-foot-long flyover ramp will serve carpools from northbound SR 167 to northbound I-405, and carpools from southbound I-405 to southbound SR 167. The ramp will function as a 2+ excessive occupancy automobile lane from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. each one day, permitting single occupancy automobiles to make use of the ramp backyard of those hours. To read extra concerning the HOV methods and carpool rules, go to our HOV lanes page.
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| Looking north on SR 167 in May 2018, crews remove formwork from two crossbeams for the future flyover ramp. |
We may be retaining a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 19, the earliest day we plan for the ramp to open to traffic. Once the orange site visitors barrels foremost as much because the bottom of every on-ramp are gone, the ramp may be competent to use! However, as a result of the recent climate forecast, we are able to supply an replace if conditions require rescheduling establishing the ramp to traffic.
While we plan for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector flyover ramp to be operationally competent as early as subsequent week, please maintain in thoughts there will nonetheless be a few overnight closures because the mission crew completes paving work into the spring.
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| As early as next week, Tuesday, Feb. 19, the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector will open to traffic, connecting the HOT lanes on SR 167 to the HOV lanes on I-405. |
To reside as much as date at the newest construction closure news for the project, please go to the I-405 Construction Updates web page and the King County Construction Updates page.
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