{"id":19150,"date":"2010-02-22T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/speak-your-piece-tuesday-on-sr-520-floating-bridge-project\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:25:26","slug":"speak-your-piece-tuesday-on-sr-520-floating-bridge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/speak-your-piece-tuesday-on-sr-520-floating-bridge-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak your piece Tuesday on SR 520 floating bridge project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\">Washington State Department of Transportation<\/a> invites the public to a hearing and open house on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to review and comment on its environmental analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\/projects\/sr520bridge\">SR 520 floating bridge and west-side interchange designs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The analysis, called a supplemental draft environmental impact statement (SDEIS), reviewed three designs for the freeway interchange in the Montlake area, as well as the effects of building a new six-lane SR 520 floating bridge and roadway from I-5 to Medina. Details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\/projects\/sr520bridge\">online<\/a> and will be available at a hearing and open house, where WSDOT staff will answer questions and receive and record public comments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Environmental hearing and open house<\/p>\n<p>Time: 5 &#8211; 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, Feb. 23<\/p>\n<p>Location: Lake Union Park Naval Reserve Building, 860 Terry Ave. N., Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>WSDOT has extended the comment period on the SDEIS to April 15. WSDOT will consider comments from the public before identifying a preferred Montlake interchange design this spring. A final environmental impact statement is scheduled to be released in about a year, an important and required step before seeking construction permits.<\/p>\n<p>To review the environmental document<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 View documents and comment online at the SR 520 Web page: www.wsdot.wa.gov\/projects\/sr520bridge\/sdeis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Visit local libraries in the greater Seattle area. A full list is on our Web page.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Call the project office at 206-770-3500 to request a free executive summary and CD or to purchase a printed copy of the document.<\/p>\n<p>To comment on the environmental document<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Comment online at www.wsdot.wa.gov\/projects\/sr520bridge\/sdeis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 E-mail comments to sr520bridge_SDEIS@wsdot.wa.gov.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Mail comments to Jenifer Young, SDEIS Environmental Manager, 600 Stewart St., Suite 520, Seattle, WA 98101.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Legislature has endorsed a six-lane replacement for the corridor, which includes two general-purpose lanes and one transit\/HOV lane in each direction. A new floating bridge is scheduled to open for drivers in 2014. The governor and Legislature established a total project budget of $4.65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the SR 520 program Web page for more information: www.wsdot.wa.gov\/projects\/sr520bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Department of Transportation invites the public to a hearing and open house on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to review and comment on its environmental analysis of the SR 520 floating bridge and west-side interchange designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}