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By Victoria Miller The ribbon has been cut and the paint has dried. The I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector flyover ramp in Renton is now open to traffic, connecting the HOT lanes on State Route 167 to the HOV lanes on Interstate 405. Governor Jay Inslee leads a ribbon cutting ceremony for the I-405/SR 167 direct connector flyover ramp in Renton How does the Direct Connector operate? The Direct Connector flyover ramp is open to 2+ excessive occupancy automobiles from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. The ramp is open to all automobiles from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day. Vehicles extra than 10,000 gross car weight are prohibited from utilizing the ramp in any respect times. The ramp is open to transit in any respect times. To read extra about how the brand new HOV ramp operates, please go to our ramp operations webpage. On Tuesday, Feb. 19, we hosted a ribbon-cutting occasion with different guests, adding Governor Jay Inslee, Secretary of Transportation Roger Millar, Mayor of Ren...

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 groundbreakin...