Giant girders in place for new 12th Street bridge

WSDOT crews have finished setting 10 100-ton girders for the renovated NE 12th Street bridge that will span I-405 near downtown Bellevue. The completion of the girder project ends four nights of full closures on I-405 that took place in one direction at a time over the past several weeks. The new bridge, expected to be complete in 2012, will be taller, wider, and have two lanes in each direction, as well as a pedestrian-and-bicycle lane separated from traffic.

August 12, 2010 5:21 pm

WSDOT crews have finished setting 10 100-ton girders for the renovated NE 12th Street bridge that will span I-405 near downtown Bellevue.

The completion of the girder project ends four nights of full closures on I-405 that took place in one direction at a time over the past several weeks.

The new bridge, expected to be complete in 2012, will be taller, wider, and have two lanes in each direction, as well as a pedestrian-and-bicycle lane separated from traffic.

The renovation is part of the “Bellevue Braids” project, which will create a new system of highway ramps that carry traffic directly between downtown Bellevue and SR-520 without using Interstate 405.

WSDOT created a time-lapse video of its crews setting the new girders on the NE 12th Street bridge.