The Agate Pass Bridge will be reduced to one lane during daytime hours for 11 consecutive days beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16, the state Department of Transportation announced Thursday.
Drivers are advised to expect traffic delays while maintenance crews clean and low-pressure wash the bridge’s steel truss. Crews will also perform other maintenance tasks as time allows.
Drivers will encounter single-lane alternating traffic at the bridge between 8:45 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays between Tuesday, Feb. 16 and Friday, Feb. 26.
On Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21, the bridge will be reduced to one lane from 7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bicycle and pedestrian traffic will be escorted across the bridge during work hours.
State officials said crews will use articulated under-bridge-inspection-trucks to maneuver around and through the bridge’s steel truss to clean tight spaces that accumulate debris.
“We know that daytime closures will cause traffic delays, but we believe they are absolutely necessary,” said WSDOT Assistant Region Administrator Troy Cowan.
“Our first priority is to do everything we can to make sure the crews, the equipment, the driving public and the bridge, are not damaged during this critical work,” he said.
