Date:  Monday, March 30, 2009

Contact: Claudia Cornish, WSDOT Communications, 360-709-8173

 Survey work closes I-5 lanes in Tacoma

TACOMA – Crews surveying two bridges in Tacoma close northbound and southbound Interstate 5 lanes overnight this week.

· At 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, crews reduce northbound I-5 to two lanes between the I-705 interchange and the Puyallup River in Tacoma. Both lanes are scheduled to reopen to traffic by 5 a.m. Thursday.

· At 10 p.m. Thursday, April 2, crews reduce southbound I-5 to two lanes between the Port of Tacoma Road interchange in Fife and Portland Avenue in Tacoma. Both lanes are scheduled to reopen to traffic by 5 a.m. Friday.

The survey data crews collect will be used by engineers designing high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes from Portland Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road and a new northbound I-5 Puyallup River Bridge. For more project information, go to:

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/PierceCountyHOV/I5_PortlandToPortNB/.

The I-5: Portland Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road - HOV project is part of the Tacoma/Pierce County HOV Program, a series of projects to build 70 HOV lane miles in Pierce County. For more information about the HOV program, go to: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/piercecountyhov/.

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