SEATTLE – At 1:30 this morning, Monday, April 25, the Washington State Department of Transportation accomplished a significant and long-awaited milestone: crews opened the eastbound lanes across the new State Route 520 floating bridge, completing the transfer of traffic onto the $1.3 billon structure. Two weeks ago westbound drivers made history when they crossed the floating structure for the first time. This morning, however, was the first time vehicles travelled across the world’s newest a

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SEATTLE – It’s official: The world’s longest floating bridge is now open to drivers crossing Lake Washington from the Eastside to Seattle.

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SEATTLE – After more than a decade of planning and five years of construction, the newest and longest floating bridge in the world is about to open. But foot traffic—not cars, trucks and buses—will be the first to cross the new State Route 520 bridge during its grand-opening celebration. The Washington State Department of Transportation will close both the old and new SR 520 floating bridges Saturday, April 2, and Sunday, April 3, for the festivities.

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SEATTLE – The April 2 grand opening celebration of the new State Route 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington will feature family-friendly, interactive exhibits and displays showcasing the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) involved in building a floating highway. Today, WSDOT and the two event presenting sponsors, Delta Air Lines and Microsoft, joined together on the floating bridge construction site to announce the free public activities slated for April 2.

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SEATTLE – Construction workers today completed installation of the low-rise roadway deck for the new State Route 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington, marking another major accomplishment for the Washington State Department of Transportation en route to opening the new bridge to traffic early next year. Using a barge-mounted crane, crews lowered the last of 776 precast, interlocking roadway deck sections onto the bridge. The setting of this final, 100-ton deck section came less than a year

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SEATTLE – State Route 520 will close to traffic this weekend for the last annual inspection of the highway’s 52-year-old floating bridge. Contractor crews for the Washington State Department of Transportation also will take advantage of the end-of-an-era road closure to conduct key construction work on the new SR 520 floating bridge and its connecting highway.

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