Drivers using State Route 18 near Interstate 90 over the next two months will find a 2-mile section reduced to a single lane on weeknights.<\/p>\n
SR 18 will be reduced to a single lane with alternating traffic on weeknights near Tiger Mountain summit, as work begins on the last of three bridges to widen a 2-mile section of SR 18 just south of I-90, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).<\/p>\n
Beginning Wednesday night, Jan. 31, the westbound lane of SR 18 will close from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday nights through Friday mornings until the end of March. People should plan for up to 20-minute delays, as a pilot vehicle will alternate traffic through a single lane along a 2-mile stretch between Lake Creek and Deep Creek.<\/p>\n
During the lane closures, contractor crews working for the WSDOT will begin work on a new four-lane bridge at Deep Creek. Crews also will continue work on the new two-lane bridge that will span Raging River and have already finished the new four-lane bridge crossing Lake Creek, just south of I-90.<\/p>\n
The new bridges replace culverts that blocked fish passage in Deep Creek and Lake Creek and create pathways for wildlife to pass under the highway instead of across it.<\/p>\n
Work at the interchange<\/strong><\/p>\n As SR 18 widening continues, crews also are working at the I-90 interchange on drainage systems and drilling foundations for the new diverging diamond sign bridges.<\/p>\n This work is part of our ongoing effort to widen the entire 7-mile stretch of SR 18 between I-90 and Issaquah-Hobart Road Southeast. The current project will build a new diverging diamond interchange and widen the first 2 miles of SR 18 to the south of I-90. It is expected to finish in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2-mile section to be reduced to single lane on weeknights until end of March <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":67912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67911","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\/67911"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67911"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}