Date:
Friday, February 17, 2006
Contact:
Dustin Terpening, WSDOT Communications, (360) 757-5997 (Burlington)
Dave Crisman, Project Engineer, (360) 848-7103 (Mount Vernon)
BOTHELL - WSDOT and its contractor Peterson Brothers will start construction and lane closures on State Route 522 in Bothell next week. Crews will install new cable guardrail to help prevent crossover and head-on accidents.
Starting Tuesday, Feb. 21 crews will spend two weeks installing nearly two miles of new cable guardrail in the median of SR 522 from just west of I-405 to NE 195th Street.
Nighttime Lane Closures
Crews are allowed to close the left lane of SR 522 west of I-405 in either direction from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., Sunday nights through Friday mornings, and east of I-405 from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., Sunday nights through Friday mornings.
WSDOT will install cable guardrail to help prevent head-on collisions caused by drivers crossing the median and entering oncoming traffic. Cable guardrail significantly reduces the number of fatal and disabling accidents.
This work, paid for with gas tax money from the 2005 Legislative Transportation Funding Package, is part of a larger $8.8 million effort to install approximately 70 miles of cable guardrail in eight counties and on nine separate highways across Washington to help prevent crossover and head-on accidents.
For more details about this project and to see specifically where WSDOT is installing cable guardrail, visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/cablebarrier.
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