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The Washington State Department of Transportation selected the design-build team of Atkinson-CH2M Hill A Joint Venture to widen Interstate-5 through Everett. The $185 million project will broaden a 10½-mile stretch of freeway, which will be completed in 2008 - just in time to help alleviate expected traffic congestion when Vancouver, British Columbia hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Work includes extending the I-5 carpool lane through Everett six miles northbound and 4½ miles southbound, and adding an extra merging lane between the 41st Street exchange and U.S. 2.
“This project will help fix a notorious bottleneck on I-5,” said Doug MacDonald, state secretary of transportation. “The carpool lanes will provide improved travel-time reliability for buses, vanpools and carpools. The extra merging lane, ramp and interchange improvements are long overdue.”
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