Northbound I-5 is scheduled to close tonight at 112th Street SE, part of ongoing work to widen the road over I-5.
The road will close from midnight to 7 a.m. Sunday so temporary wooden supports can be removed, said Laura Johnson, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation.
“They don’t want any traffic on the freeway in case they drop something,” she said.
Similar work is under way on the bridge over southbound I-5, she said.
The plan is to shift 112th Street traffic onto the new bridges in July, allowing the state to then demolish the old ones. Then the second halves of both new bridges will be built, eventually resulting in new, five-lane bridges.
The work is part of a $41 million Sound Transit and city of Everett bid to widen 112th Street and build a park-and-ride in the middle of the freeway just north of 112th Street.
The work is scheduled to finish in 2008.
Drivers can detour either to the Bothell-Everett Highway to the east or Highway 99 to the west. They will be detoured off the freeway at 128th Street SE and get back on the freeway at the Highway 526 interchange with I-5.
Reporter Lukas Velush: 425-339-3449 or lvelush@heraldnet.com.
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