SEATTLE — The Washington Transportation Department says Seattle commuters continued to face rush hour gridlock on the third weekday of demolition work that has shut down the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
The good news: the work remains on schedule — and there’s just two more days left in the work week. Spokesman Jeff Switzer says the revamped viaduct is scheduled to reopen early Monday.
A pedestrian fatality on I-5 through downtown worsened Wednesday morning traffic.
Switzer says the Wednesday evening commute was “very heavily congested” on southbound I-5 and some surface streets from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Workers are demolishing the southern mile of the viaduct as part of the $3.2 billion project to replace the elevated waterfront roadway with a tunnel under downtown Seattle. The loss of the section of Highway 99 forces about 110,000 vehicles a day onto alternate routes.
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