Weekend road work hits multiple western Washington routes

Sports fans won’t be the only ones cheering this weekend. Mercer Island commuters will be happy to see the East Channel Bridge project wrap up. Since Sept. 18, expansion joint repairs have closed one eastbound lane on Interstate 90 (I-90) across Mercer Island, resulting in back-ups into Seattle and adding a half-hour to the daily […]

Failing expansion joint continues to plague I-90 on Mercer Island

It’s added 15-to-20 minutes to the drives of eastbound I-90 commuters. So why is it taking so long to fix the expansion joint on the freeway on Mercer Island? Eastbound I-90 has been reduced to three lanes on the east end of Mercer Island for about a month now. There is a failing expansion joint […]

16 days of congestion coming to I-90 east across Mercer Island

Getting to Bellevue from Seattle on I-90 is not going to be easy for the next three weeks. Expansion joint repair before I-405 is expected to cause big delays. It has taken 20 months, but the state is finally going to replace the expansion joint on eastbound I-90 at the East Channel Bridge. It failed […]