Traffic Alert: I-405 Nighttime Lane Closures This Weekend Around SR 522

Heads up: Work will commence Saturday night on one of the state's busiest freeways — Interstate 405 — with up to three southbound lanes being closed from State Route 522 to NE 128th Street.

The construction zones on I-405 in Kirkland and Bothell will have wide-ranging traffic impacts across the Eastside and into Seattle.

Crews will also close up to two lanes of southbound I-405 between NE 195th Street and SR 522.

The closures will begin starting at 8 p.m. Saturday, and all lanes will reopen by 7 a.m. Sunday.

The work is part of an on-going project to widen and add express toll lanes to I-405. According to the Washington Department of Transportation:

“Crews are working to add a temporary on-ramp to northbound I-405 from NE 160th Street. While drivers use the temporary on-ramp, crews will build a new braided northbound I-405 on-ramp from NE 160th Street. The new ramp will separate drivers getting onto northbound I-405 at NE 160th Street from northbound I-405 drivers headed to SR 522. The new ramp will be open to traffic in 2015.”

For more details see the WSDOT web page here:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/I405/NE6thtoI5/.