Washington State Department of Transportation

Lori Tobias - Thu October 20, 2016

Bertha Bashes Past Half-Way Tunnel Point

Three years after the tunneling machine dubbed "Bertha" began work on a 2-mi. (3.2 km) tunnel beneath the city of Seattle, the machine has passed the half-way point. Bertha pushed past the Pike Place Market on Sept....

Wed September 28, 2016

WSDOT-Owned Bridges Meet Performance Goal in 2016

Bridges owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation met an annual performance goal of having at least 90 percent of deck area in fair or better condition, despite a slight decrease from one year ago....

Fri September 16, 2016

AASHTO Names Project Finalists for 2016 Awards

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, announced the finalists in the 2016 America's Transportation Awards competition. Twelve projects from 10 state departments of transportation are competing for the national Grand Prize and the People's Choice Award....

Meagan Lott - WSDOT Blog - Fri September 02, 2016

BLOG: New Avalanche Bridge Opens to Traffic Across Snoqualmie Pass

Things are going to look a little different in the next couple of days across Snoqualmie Pass as we get ready to put all four lanes of traffic on the new avalanche bridge. This is all part of the major improvement project to widen a 15-mi....

Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Fri September 02, 2016

I-5 Improvements Ease Congestion

Since the I-5 Madigan Access Improvement project's start in October 2015, drivers traveling the stretch of I-5 alongside Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) had to contend with nighttime lane closures while users of Berkeley Street had to navigate construction on the southbound off-ramp and across the Freedom Bridge....

Fri August 19, 2016

Fast and Furiously Busy: Crews to Finish 30-Day Job in Three

PACIFIC, Wash. — Fighting traffic can sometimes seem like an upstream battle. With that in mind, contractors say they've found a way to condense 30 nights of highway lane closures into less than three days of labor, working nonstop to finish a fish passageway while repaving about one mile of State Route 167....