Bonding toll revenue allows work on I-405 project to begin

The Everett Herald-Net ^ | June 10, 2019 | Lizz Giordano

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A date for at least a bit of congestion relief has been set for commuters on I-405 between Bothell and Lynnwood.

During the last session, state legislators approved the bonding of I-405 toll revenue, allowing the build-out of at least one highway project to begin sooner.

Construction to widen I-405 between highways 522 and 527, which will add another express toll lane in each direction, will now start by 2021, according to Craig Smiley, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Transportation. The project also includes building direct access ramps from Highway 522 onto the express toll lanes, and direct-access ramps at a rebuilt Highway 527 interchange.

Before this change, there was no firm start date listed for the I-405 plan, Smiley said. No funding source had been allocated for construction.

Completion was years in the future, said Davina Duerr, deputy mayor of Bothell.

Now the lanes are set to be completed in 2024, the same year Sound Transit plans to launch its bus rapid transit system along I-405.

Described by the agency as “like rail on rubber tires,” bus rapid transit systems are designed to improve capacity and reliability compared to other bus systems. The line will run from Lynnwood to Burien.

Bus rapid transit wouldn’t have been successful without the toll lanes or direct access ramps, Duerr said.

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For those that are clueless this is about Seattle (I was thinking it was in LA).

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I suppose that no one really cares about all the traffic that will bypass the toll road and either go up SR 527 if headed northbound from I-405 onto northbound I-5 or if they want to go southbound I-5 to exit at the first Bothell off ramp go through Bothell and then Lake Forest Park.

Yes when the first toll lane was opened traffic in Bothell increased dramatically to the point local politicians asked the Legislature to look into what was going on.

I guess the Legislature doesn't care anymore. Less “congestion” for those willing to pay the toll, but much more congestion for those not willing to pay or those innocent bystanders who don't travel on I-405, but use the regular local roads in and around Bothell.