EVERETT – The state Department of Transportation announced Monday that the Guy F. Atkinson construction company and CH2M Hill engineering design firm have been selected for the $222 million project to widen I-5 through Everett.
The state decided to use a design-build technique to widen the 101/2-mile stretch of freeway so work can be finished by the time Vancouver, B.C., hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Construction is scheduled to start this summer and finish in fall 2008.
The project will extend the I-5 carpool lane through Everett six miles northbound and 41/2 miles southbound. It also will add an extra merging lane between the 41st Street interchange and U.S. 2.
Guy F. Atkinson is a construction firm based in Renton. CH2M Hill is an international environmental and engineering design firm with a local office in Bellevue.
“The project will help fix a notorious bottleneck on I-5,” said Doug MacDonald, state secretary of transportation.
“The (carpool) lanes will provide improved travel-time reliability for buses, vanpools and carpools. The extra merging lane, ramp and interchange improvements are long overdue,” he said.
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