Date:  Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Contact:
Greg Phipps, WSDOT Communications, 206-464-1265
David Sowers, WSDOT Project Engineer, 206-802-3969

SEATTLE – Crews working for a WSDOT contractor will close Fourth Avenue S. in SODO for three nights this week.

Each night at 7 p.m. from Wednesday, May 27 to Friday, May 29, crews will close all lanes of Fourth Avenue S. between S. Royal Brougham Way and S. Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive S. The street will reopen by 5 a.m. each morning. A signed detour will divert drivers to Sixth Avenue S.

During the closures crews will remove a sign bridge, move median curbing and restripe the southbound lanes of Fourth Avenue S. The work will create a work area in the middle of the southbound lanes just south of S. Royal Brougham Way. The work area will give crews room to safely build a portion of the new westbound I-90 and I-5 off-ramp to S. Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive S.

This construction is part of the $84.35 million SR 519 Intermodal Access Project. In the project crews are building the new off-ramp and a bridge over the railroad tracks on S. Royal Brougham Way. The project also includes the recently completed widening of the First Avenue S. and S. Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive S.

These improvements will create a safer SR 519 for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, and move freight, daily commuters, sports fans and ferry travelers faster through the corridor. For more information, visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr519. Track construction progress with our SR 519 photo collection on flickr.

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