Intermittent closures set for Hood Canal Bridge for 12 nights

SHINE — Work on the Hood Canal Bridge will resume this week, with the span to be closed to vehicle traffic intermittently overnight for 12 nights beginning Monday.

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 work to rehabilitate the drawspan’s mechanical components, Transportation officials have said.

The 12-night closure schedule will be from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. each night from Monday night through Saturday morning, April 28, with the exception of Sunday, April 22 when crews will work until 7 a.m.

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 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.

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