If the weather holds, southbound I-5 through Seattle will be shut down this weekend for the first of a summer’s worth of weekend closures for expansion joint repairs.
35 metal expansion joints need to be replaced on I-5 from downtown to about Spokane Street. They are the spots where you’ve been bouncing on the freeway since last year when the Washington State Department of Transportation repaved. “I-5 was built in the 60’s, and 32 of the 35 expansion joints in this work area are original,” WSDOT’s Amy Moreno said.
It just doesn’t make sense to keep putting band-aids on them and waiting for them to pop. They need to
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