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Rain cancels planned I-5 lane closures in Everett

Published 3:30 pm Friday, October 21, 2022

By Herald Staff

Dan Bates / The Herald Mid-afternoon traffic on northbound Interstate 5, Monday, just north of the Boeing Freeway (526) offramp provides a wicked brew of corporate, public and personal vehicles for homebound Boeing commuters to merge with, following a shift change at the Everett 747 plant.
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Dan Bates / The Herald Mid-afternoon traffic on northbound Interstate 5, Monday, just north of the Boeing Freeway (526) offramp provides a wicked brew of corporate, public and personal vehicles for homebound Boeing commuters to merge with, following a shift change at the Everett 747 plant.
Traffic, seen here during Jan. 4, 2016 on northbound Interstate 5 just north of the Highway 526 interchange, is likely to back up during work this weekend that requires reducing it to at most two lanes. (Dan Bates / Herald file)

EVERETT — The rain coming through Snohomish County this weekend won’t just alleviate the smoke.

It also means northbound lanes on I-5 will remain open for most of the weekend. They were scheduled to be partially closed all weekend as the Revive I-5 project moved through Everett to replace dozens of concrete panels on the freeway.

Instead, the planned work on about 3 miles from just north of the Highway 526 interchange to Everett Avenue will be scheduled for a later date, the state Department of Transportation announced Friday.

When it is rescheduled, the weekend of construction will include reducing northbound I-5 to two lanes between 41st Street and the Snohomish River and closing the Marine View Drive off-ramp all weekend.

Some work will continue this weekend, however. From 8:30 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday, northbound I-5 in Everett will be down to two lanes so crews can restripe the left three lanes, an agency spokesperson said.

This section of I-5 was built in the 1960s, so the pavement has been wearing down for decades. The weekend-long closures allow for the hours needed to replace worn expansion joints at four local bridges.

The project cost $7.9 million in state and federal funding.

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