EVERETT — Drivers won’t be able to use the U.S. 2 trestle to get from Lake Stevens or Snohomish to Everett during evening and nighttime hours this week.
The state Department of Transportation is planning to close the westbound trestle from 6 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Maintenance crews are scheduled to do pavement work, and the bridge is too narrow to work on while traffic is moving, Transportation spokesman Mike Allende said.
Workers plan to repair concrete, fix potholes, fill cracks, smooth the pavement and lay new asphalt. They’ll grind out old asphalt and replace it with a new surface they hope will hold up longer to the increasing traffic flow, he said.
“We’re repairing areas where the road surface has deteriorated and areas where we’ve made temporary patches over the last several years,” Allende said.
The project costs about $25,000. The last time the Department of Transportation did a full closure of the trestle for roadwork was more than 15 years ago when it resurfaced the deck, Allende said. There have been a number of one-lane closures since then for temporary repairs, he said.
Pavement patches deteriorate in a matter of months and require more frequent one-lane closures to keep up with, he said. Next week’s more intensive work is meant to last longer and lower the number of closures needed throughout the year.
Cars will be rerouted to the Ebey Island exit and take 20th Street up to Homeacres Road, where they can merge back onto the highway. Roughly 75,000 vehicles use the U.S. 2 Trestle each day, according to a 2014 traffic report.
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