For those that didn’t know, going in and picking out a broken girder or two in the middle of the bridge is pretty complicated, expensive and time-consuming. It’s been over a year since a truck hit the Lind Avenue overpass in Renton. This weekend, southbound Interstate 405 will have to close for demolition.
In June 2022, a trailer carrying a backhoe went under the Lind Avenue overpass of southbound I-405. It was too tall.
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“When the backhoe’s arm hit the bridge, it actually hit five of the eight girders,” the Washington Department of Transportation’s Tom Pearce
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