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Work to start on new bridge
Storm damage extensive
The six-lane project over I-5 is expected to decrease gridlock in an area of the county that has grown drastically in the past 15 years.
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Index might have been hit the hardest, with hundreds of trees brought down and an entire neighborhood flooded. By Rikki King and Amy Nile Herald Writers
EVERETT — Well, the dry spell is over. That much was clear after last week’s massive storm of water
and wind. Snohomish County is collecting damage reports from property owners, Emergency Management Director John Pennington said. As of Wednesday morning, reports had come in for 66 homes and 10 businesses,
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he said. Of the homes, 12 had households major damage or were still without destroyed. power, B1 “The numbers are going to go up. There’s no question,” he said. “We are going to work very hard to advocate for and seek federal assistance for homeowners.”
Some had flooding damage, lost goods from power outages or downed trees, though some were a combination. Those totals don’t include the Index area, which might have been hit the hardest, Pennington said. He visited the upper Skykomish River Valley on Monday. See STORM, Page A7
By Chris Winters Herald Writer
TULALIP — For a section of I-5 that sees 100,000 vehicles per day, the two-lane bridge at 116th Street NE joining Marysville and Tulalip just doesn’t cut it any more. In January, construction crews are set to start work on the bridge deck for a new overpass. By fall of 2016, a new six-lane bridge should be open to traffic, at which point the crews will begin the final phase of reorienting the on- and offramps. Traffic over the existing twolane bridge already is bad, with cars on the northbound off-ramp frequently backing up onto I-5. The project is expected to drastically reduce gridlock in a part of the county that’s seen a lot of growth in the past 15 years. “It wasn’t just for the business park, it was for the region,” said Debra Bray, the project manager for the Tulalip Tribes that has led the project. The business park Bray referred to is the Quil Ceda Village shopping center and business park, which didn’t exist when the current interchange was built in 1971 and the surrounding area was largely rural. The Consolidated Borough of Quil Ceda Village incorporated in 2001, and what are now
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For Sultan Elementary second-grader Blaze Turner, 7, celebrating Thanksgiving is about one thing: “It’s all about spending time together because I love my family. Spending time together with your family is the most important thing.” Read more of what he and other first- and second-graders at the school have to say about Thanksgiving in The Herald’s annual Turkey Talk feature on Page A3.
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Lynnwood receives $5 million to widen 196th Street City officials recently got word they’ve secured an additional $5 million in state transportation grants. That brings the total of state and federal contributions for the
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LYNNWOOD — The plan to widen 196th Street SW in Lynnwood just got a boost.
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project to $22 million, confirming that construction can start in 2018, public works director Bill Franz said. Of that, $14.9 million was approved by the Legislature in this year’s transportation
package. The city will pick up the other $2 million in anticipated costs. Also known as Highway 524, the route is Lynnwood’s busiest east-west arterial, Franz said.
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“This is a critical transportation link,” he said. The stretch of road planned for widening is about 0.7 miles See STREET, Page A7
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