Girder setting requires ramp and street closures at 148th Avenue NE and SR 520

Credit:  Sound Transit

From Tuesday, July 10 until Saturday morning, July 14, crews working to build Sound Transit�s East Link project will install concrete girders between future elevated guideway columns in Redmond�s Overlake neighborhood. Mobile cranes will be at work along SR 520 at 148th Avenue NE from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly.


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