Commuters who access Interstate 405 via the Bothell-Everett Highway will encounter construction for a new freeway bus station and pedestrian bridge.
A ground breaking for the project took place Tuesday, Aug. 1 at the Canyon Park park-and-ride lot in Bothell.
The Canyon Park Freeway Station/I-405 project will provide a freeway station on the southbound on-ramp to I-405 from northbound Bothell-Everett Highway and a pedestrian bridge connecting the new freeway stop to the Canyon Park Park-and-Ride.
The $10.7 million project will also include lighting for the pedestrian bridge, widen the current on-ramp and convert the carpool lane into a bus lane and loading platform.
Sound Transit, the lead agency on the project, claims the freeway station and pedestrian bridge will improve transit speed and reliability in the area corridor and cut as much as 10 minutes off the average commuter’s trip by keeping busses from driving to the park-and-ride lot, according to the agency’s Web site.
The project, which will be built by Wilder Construction and the state Department of Transportation, is expected to be completed by summer 2007.
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