People who use State Route 18 near Interstate 90 should continue to plan extra time for their trips, as contractor crews work to widen the highway and redesign the interchange.<\/p>\n
SR 18 closures<\/strong><\/p>\n To prepare for widening, crews will close the truck climbing lanes throughout the project, reducing traffic to one lane in each direction. Starting Wednesday, June 7, the eastbound lane will close; on Friday, June 9, the westbound lane will close.<\/p>\n Additionally, people should expect slight traffic shifts on SR 18 during the daytime commute and intermittent nightly lane reductions as early as 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays reopening by 5 a.m. Flaggers will direct motorists when traffic is reduced to one lane.<\/p>\n I-90 closures<\/strong><\/p>\n Near Preston, the left lane on westbound I-90 will close each day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, for utility work.<\/p>\n Additionally, flaggers will alternate traffic on Upper Preston Road Southeast at the I-90 overpass from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, June 5-15.<\/p>\n I-90\/SR 18 interchange improvements and widening<\/strong><\/p>\n When complete in 2025, this project will improve safety and keep traffic flowing through the busy corridor.<\/p>\n A second project will complete highway widening from Deep Creek to Issaquah-Hobart Road when the first project is finished. Drilling crews continue to work west of Tiger Mountain and may close lanes intermittently on weekdays.<\/p>\n Real-time traffic information is available on the WSDOT statewide travel map, the WSDOT app and the WSDOT regional Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People who use SR 18 near I-90 should plan extra time for their trips, WSDOT says <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":63002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63001"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63001"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}