EVERETT — Construction work on the Edgewater Bridge connecting Everett to Mukilteo may impact parking and slow traffic along Everett streets near the construction site soon, public works officials said Monday.
Construction crews will receive massive concrete girders — the main horizontal beams that will support the bridge deck and the traffic that travels over it — as early as 5 a.m. on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21, Everett’s public works department wrote in a release Monday.
The girders will arrive via Glenwood Avenue and must be delivered slowly and carefully to the construction site on West Mukilteo Boulevard as the girders are “very large,” the department wrote. Parking along Glenwood Avenue may be impacted to allow crews to temporarily store the girders.
Any impacted parking areas will be signed at least 72 hours in advance, the public works department wrote. It called the delivery of the girders a “slow, painstaking process,” but also said it marked a “significant and visible milestone” for the bridge replacement project.
The bridge is still scheduled to open in early 2026, the department wrote Monday, the same timeline the city set after it pushed back the opening date in May.
The city closed the bridge for construction in October 2024 with an initial estimated opening date of late 2025. But workers ran into unexpected issues when crews were installing steel piles — cylindrical metal structures used to create a temporary work bridge. When crews began drilling to install the piles, they ran into underground obstructions like timber and concrete left over from a previous bridge structure, forcing the delay.
The original Edgewater Bridge was built in 1946 and saw about 6,000 vehicles cross it every day. But the old bridge was too narrow and vulnerable to earthquakes, city reports found. The new $34.9 million bridge will have 12-foot lanes in each direction, sidewalks on each side and bike lanes. Much of the funding came from a federal grant.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
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