I-5 HOV improvements |
Project description: The segment of Interstate 5 between South 48th Street and Pacific Avenue is highly congested because of the proximity to state Route 16 and the Nalley Valley Viaduct. In these areas, traffic is emerging or exiting at a high volume, vehicles changing lanes at a rapid pace, all causing traffic to slow and cause backups. This project will widen the entire Tacoma I-5 corridor with an additional lane and wider shoulders in each direction from state Route 512 to the Port of Tacoma Road to make room for future high occupancy vehicle lanes. When the project is complete, there will be a new multi-lane, northbound collector/distributor road, which will include a new northbound exit to Interstate 705 and an improved merging area from Route 16. Traffic congestion will be improved and the amount of vehicular accidents will be greatly decreased by shifting emerging and exiting traffic onto the new collector/distributor roadway that will run along the existing northbound freeway lanes from South 48th Street to I-705. The city street bridges on Tacoma Avenue, Yakima Avenue and Delin Street which span over I-5 will all be removed and the Yakima and Delin bridges will be reconstructed to modern standards. These new standards will also help decrease traffic congestion. Environmental protections are being enforced. Retaining walls and noise barriers will be constructed to help minimize property and wetland impacts. Construction measures used include the installation of silt fences, check dams, compost beams and temporary ponds, as well as some permanent measures such as constructing drainage structures, swales and detention ponds that collect and filter highway storm water runoff. Erosion control measures such as composting topsoil, seeding, fertilizing and mulching for slope stabilization will be used.
Address: I-5, South 48th Street to Pacific Avenue (MP 131.17-133.68) Cost: $72.87 million (award amount) Type of contract: Hard bid Start of construction: Summer 2005 Expected completion date: April 2008
Contractor:
Kiewit Construction Co., Engineer: Howard Diep, Washington State Department of Transportation Owner: Washington State Department of Transportation
Project participants:
Appleby Northwest
Apply-A-Line
ATR Construction
Avery Dennison
Axis Crane Axsys Geomatic Consultants
B&C Trucking Baywood Construction
Best Parking Lot Cleaning Brundage-Bone Concrete
Pumping
Canadian Forest Products
Cascade Steel Rolling
Chandler Construction
Coalition Construction
DH Development Co.
Direct Seed Sales
DMI Drilling Donald B. Murphy
Contractors
East Jordan Iron Works
Ennis Paint Co.
G.G.D. Construction
GE Lighting
Glacier Northwest
Hancor
Hanson Pipe
Harlow Construction
Hatch Western Co.
Holroyd Co.
Interstate Sales Jack Johnson Construction
Kleen Environmental Tech.
Linq Industrial Fabrics
Long Painting Co.
Long Services
Matheus
Miles Sand & Gravel
Mirafi
Morrison Gravel
Nor-Pac Enterprises
Northwest Boring Co.
Northwest Linings & Geotextile Products
Nucor Steel
Olympic Trucking Pelland Enterprises
Peterson Brothers
Pro-Vac Clean Service
Quality Fence Builders
Ralphs Concrete Pumping
RPM Steel
Salinas Construction
Security Barricade
Sicklesteel Cranes
Simplot Co. Stan Palmer Construction
Superior Wood Treating
Tacoma Electric Supply
Terra Dynamics
TMT Pathway
Tree Island Industries
Trinity Industries
Tucci & Sons
U.S. Oil & Refining Co.
Valmont
Wagner Development
Williams Form Engineering
Woodworth & Co.
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