A message from the Administrators

We are sharing with you this annual update on our work to reconstruct and improve State

bridges over , much work remains. Specifically, we’re focused now on the area between and I-5, what we call the “Rest of the West.”

summer. You’ll see much more work taking place in Montlake in 2020 as crews begin

eastbound traffic. Other Rest of the West projects, as shown on the map below, will follow. Denise Cieri, P.E. Inside this mailer you’ll find project-related highlights of the year just past, and a snapshot

the Montlake Market; we hope to know within the next few months if our efforts to help

we learn more about these issues. As alwa

Omar Jepperson, P.E.

Bridge Replacement Administrator, Alaskan Way Viaduct and Deputy Administrator, SR 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV Program SR 520 Megaprograms and HOV Program

I-5 bicycle/pedestrian University of Second Montlake bascule bridge crossing Washington

Improved I-5 Montlake Cut 2019 interchange Union Bay connections Pedestrian/bicycle land bridge Roanoke lid (10th and Delmar)

YEAR IN Montlake interchange 520 520 and lid West Approach Bridge South

REVIEW MONTLAKE Portage Bay Bridge with regional shared-use path

SR 520/I-5 Express Lanes Portage Bay Bridge and Montlake Cut Bascule Bridge Project Montlake Project Roanoke Lid Project WSDOT will coordinate with community Construction start: Summer 2019 Construction estimated start: 2020 Construction estimated start: 2023 stakeholders and agency partners Estimated duration: 4-5 years Estimated duration: 3 years Estimated duration: 6 years regarding project scope and timing

This material can be made available in an alternate format by emailing the Office of Equal Opportunity at [email protected] or by calling toll free, 855-362-4ADA(4232). Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing may make a request by calling the Washington State Relay at 711. 2019 recap

WINTER SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER JANUARY 2019 MARCH 2019 construction, and to sell JUNE 2019 JULY 2019 • Contractor crews continue to Washington chapter and • • WSDOT gives its Montlake • g bridge the Montlake Market • Graham hosts a • ing bridge sentinels investigate soil and groundwater Project contractor, Graham, property once Montlake preconstruction open contamination around the 76 gas highway projects not yet under the Mariners’ Project is complete. station and Montlake Market in • Westbo construction, including the Washington chapter. season-opening Montlake Project. • community members project elements and to home game. MAY 2019 Project. • WSDOT kicks o NOVEMBER 2019 begin construction. • WSDOT concludes summerlong public community and stakeholder APRIL 2019 SEPTEMBER 2019 replacing the old eastbound lanes • Nearly 500 people respond to an DECEMBER 2019 • Graham crews begin Market, determines • The Montlake Pro over Union Bay. online WSDOT survey regarding • Graham crews open a new, temporary eastbound SR 520 on-ramp in preserving market is Portage Bay Bridge Center opens, providing a drop-in • WSDOT holds a second open house Montlake, and permanently close the soils testing in Montlake on the Portage Bay Bridge and Montlake Project construction. old on-ramp in the Washington Park • WSDOT holds public Project. AUGUST 2019 • c over Union Bay Arboretum. project construction. meeting regarding • WSDOT completes a • Montlake Project construction • Portage Bay • ts begins. community & stakeholder workshop. • Graham hosts two public open houses regarding project construction. community meetings • WSDOT Diversity Manager * Conceptual rendering of • WSDOT hosts the second Portage Project. on diversity and OCTOBER 2019 Regina Glenn named Diversity Montlake transit plaza, above, Bay Bridge community and inclusive contracting. • WSDOT installs 27 thinner steel lanes between Montlake and the subject to change. stakeholder design workshop. to operate during cover plates on the SR 520 Trail,

SR 520: by the numbers in 2019 What’s ahead for SR 520 in 2020 • Montlake Project:

crews simultaneously begin constructing a new, three-lane

• SR 52 We’ll

• Portage Bay Bridge and Roanoke Lid Project: On the 13,000 feet

• Montlake Cut Bascule Bridge Project: We plan to conduct

transportation enhancements would best help move people

Boulevard corridor.

2019 YEAR IN REVIEW • January 2020