SHINE — Work on the Hood Canal Bridge will resume this week, with the span to be closed to vehicle traffic intermittently overnight for up to seven nights beginning Wednesday.
Crews working for the state Department of Transportation will open the bridge to traffic several times to ease congestion. The traffic openings will be unscheduled and performed as workloads allow.
Contractor crews will continue preparatory efforts that will ultimately replace worn mechanical components that operate the bridge draw span, Transportation said in a news release.
Work on the rehabilitation project had prompted intermittent closures on the bridge during last year’s warmer season. Improving weather has allowed resumption of the project this week, Transportation said.
The closure could mean that delivery of the Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette or Forks Forum will be delayed. The newspapers are printed in Everett and brought back over the bridge in the early morning hours.
Transportation awarded the $5.2 million project to Northbank Civil and Marine Inc. Work began last summer and is expected to be finished this year.
Drivers can get information at www.wsdot.com/traffic/hoodcanal.
