Get ready for year of Mukilteo detours with $34M bridge replacement

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EVERETT — Travelers on Mukilteo Boulevard between Everett and Mukilteo soon will have to take the long way around, for a long time.

The replacement of Edgewater Bridge, a vital link between the two cities, will take a year. It severs all traffic — motorist, cyclist and pedestrian — both ways.

“We anticipate construction activities will start toward the end of this summer,” Everett Public Works spokesperson Kathleen Baxter said in an email.

The project is set to cost about $34 million, she said. Of this, $28 million is from federal bridge program grants and $6 million in local dollars. The original estimate for the project, which has undergone delays for several years, was $22 million. The City Council awarded the contract to Granite Construction, one of two bidders, on May 29.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/get-ready-for-year-of-mukilteo-detours-with-34m-bridge-replacement/

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1. That's inconvenient

The bridges that cross the Upper Delaware are all getting repairs. They need them! Yet the result is each bridge becomes a single lane with traffic alternating directions, (there are portable traffic lights at each end).

These crossing are the only way to get from NY to PA so they’re critical. Thankfully, the repairs are being staggered.