City Light Continues Overhead Power Line Work on I-5

Seattle City Light continues to support Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link Extension project by relocating existing overhead power lines on Interstate 5 near Northeast 185th Street in Shoreline. This work will result in traffic impacts on August 6-8.

Seattle City Light continues to support Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link Extension project by relocating existing overhead power lines on Interstate 5 near Northeast 185^th Street in Shoreline. This work will result in traffic impacts on August 6-8.

To complete this work safely, crews must intermittently conduct rolling slowdowns of traffic in both directions of I-5 to ensure safe work operations and passage for motorists. The work will start late Tuesday night on August 6. Traffic will be intercepted and escorted at slow speeds for up to 15 minutes between 196^th Street Southwest (Lynnwood) and Northeast 80^th Street (Seattle) as crews pull overhead feeder cables across the highway. Traffic will return to normal speeds once past the work area.

Rolling slowdowns will occur on the following dates:

• Tuesday night (11:59 p.m.), August 6 to Wednesday morning (4 a.m.), August 7
• Wednesday night (11:59 p.m.), August 7 to Thursday morning (4 a.m.), August 8

Additional Details:

• Washington State Patrol troopers and contracted crews will intermittently intercept and escort southbound I-5 traffic through the work area beginning at 196^th Street Southwest in Lynnwood. The same will occur for northbound traffic beginning at Northeast 80^th Street in Seattle.
• Traffic using the following on-ramps to I-5 will also be affected:
  • On southbound I-5: 196^th Street Southwest, 44th Avenue West (Lynnwood), 220^th Street Southwest (Mountlake Terrace), State Route 104 (Shoreline)
  • On northbound I-5: Northeast 175th Street, 5^th Avenue Northeast (Shoreline), Northeast Northgate Way (Seattle), Northeast 80^th Street (Seattle)

Drivers should expect delays and consider using alternate routes during construction.

For more information on Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link Extension project, which will extend light rail into south Snohomish County and serve stations in Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood, please visit www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/lynnwood-link-extension or seattle.gov/light/atwork.