A two-month construction project in the middle of Interstate 5’s southbound lanes through Everett is expected to cause major traffic slowdowns and backups, with all-day lane closures and occasional evening detours onto city streets for vehicles merging from Highway 2.

Crews tonight are expected to close a 19-foot-wide strip of I-5 between 41st Street and Everett Avenue, creating an island within the flow of southbound traffic. The diversion will remain in place throughout the project.

A December 2006 accident on Pacific Avenue, which passes beneath I-5, is to blame. A truck carrying an excavator struck the underside of the I-5 bridge, seriously damaging a girder.

Crews will dig a 95-foot-long trench in the closed lane to expose the girder, which will be removed and replaced. Then the ripped-up stretch of roadway will be repaved.

Full article here.

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