Date:  Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Contact: Bronlea Mishler, WSDOT Communications, 360-757-5947

GLACIER – Both lanes of the new Boulder Creek bridge are scheduled to open to traffic Thursday, Sept. 4. The bridge has been under construction since June of 2007.

The bridge spans Boulder Creek on SR 542 just east of Glacier, near Mount Baker. Crews demolished the old bridge in July, then finished paving the bridge approaches and striping the roadway at the end of August.

The new Boulder Creek bridge is higher and wider than its predecessor, with a 10-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycle path that links the Bay to Baker trail. The higher bridge should also reduce flooding problems and resulting highway closures, reduce maintenance, improve fish habitat and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

The new bridge was completed for less than the $7.3 million budgeted. For more information on the Boulder Creek bridge project, visit the project Web page at www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR542/BoulderCreekBridgeReplacement/.  

View photos of the new bridge on the WSDOT Flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/sets/72157606191306357/.  

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