The previous post detailed why the year 2022 exemplified another year of Sound Transit failure to reduce I-5 and I-90 congestion into and out of Seattle. This morning’s trip from Eastgate to and from SeaTac prompted this post detailing the WSDOT failure to reduce I-405 congestion.
I was fortunate in being able to use the HOV lane in both directions. Those not able to were forced to endure miles of stop and go, particularly on the return trip. It’s a problem that more than 5 years ago a Seattle Times Dec 25, 2017, article indicated WSDOT had plans to alleviate. It included the following excerpts:
In 2019, work crews on Interstate 405 will start building a new lane in each direction between Renton and Bellevue, as part of a series of changes that aim to improve traffic flow on what officials call Washington’s worst corridor for congestion.
Then, five years later, the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will open the new lanes, and an existing one each way, to traffic as express toll lanes, extending the interstate’s current tolling system between Lynnwood and Bellevue that opened in 2015.
WSDOT will spend $1.22 billion on the upcoming project, funded by the statewide gas-tax increase approved by the Legislature in 2015.Again, three years after work was to begin, nothing has. I-405 commuters deserve better.
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