Drivers should be used to the orange stripes on Interstate 5 near 70th Street in Fife, but they will be going away soon.
over the summer in about a mile stretch of I-5 through the Fife construction zone. They will be going away in the next few weeks as the construction of new bridges over Hylebos Creek moves into another phase.“We have this median work, which is building the new bridges for the relocated Hylebos, so we’re building the inner halves of those bridges,” Washington Department of Transportation project engineer Tom Slimak said..
“Coming up around the middle of October, we anticipate we will be shifting traffic back towards the median, and drivers will be on those new bridges while we then establish a work zone on the outsides to build the remaining halves of those bridges,” Slimak said. So, another major traffic shift is coming up, and drivers will move to the inside of the freeway. The 50-mile-an-hour speed limit will go away at the same time.
“We won’t have all lanes as a regulatory speed reduction once we shift back,” Slimak said. “We’ll be doing it an advisory speed in for these inside lanes as you’re adjacent to that barrier to slow down, but it will not be all lanes a regulatory speed reduction.”Washington and several other states are testing the orange paint for the Federal Highway Administration, which wants to know if it makes work zones safer.
I would like to know if you changed your behavior in this work zone because of the orange striping or if you think it had any impact. Send me your comments.
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