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Two trucks crash, one driver killed ...
April
18/08
Two semi-trucks collided at an intersection near
Everett Mall this morning, killing one driver and sending the other
driver briefly to a hospital, police said. Everett police were called
to the intersection of state Highway 526 and Southeast Everett Mall
Way around 4:15 a.m. for reports of the crash. Officers have not
determined the cause of the accident; they are looking into who had
the green light, said Sgt. Robert Goetz. And Everett Mall Way is shut
down from the northbound onramp in Interstate 5 to State Route 526.
All lanes are expected to open in about an hour or so...
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Rossi plan de-emphasizes I-5 bridge tolls ...
April
15/08
In the Puget Sound area, Rossi proposes to
replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel, build a new eight-lane
Highway 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington, widen Interstate 405
from Renton to Bellevue and build a new six-mile highway in Pierce
County. His plan would tap a Sound Transit surplus to pay for
high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the east side of Lake Washington.
Drivers would pay tolls on the 520 bridge once it is completed in 2014...
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Lakewood man killed while crossing I-5 in Seattle ...
April
11/08
A 49-year-old Lakewood man was killed Thursday
night when he was hit by a truck while trying to cross Interstate 5
near Airport Way in Seattle, the Washington State Patrol reported. The
man died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His name has not
been officially released because his family has not been notified. The
truck driver, a 56-year-old Las Vegas man, was not injured, the State
Patrol reported....
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INRIX
Pioneers Another Traffic Industry First ...
April
10/08
INRIX today introduced Nationwide Traffic Alerts
on more than 100,000 miles of major arterials, freeways and highways,
including the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System, with never-before
availability of real-time traffic alerts highlighting abnormal traffic
congestion across the nation. MapQuest and other INRIX customers
intend to deliver INRIX Nationwide Traffic Alerts for major urban,
interurban and rural roadways, highlighting unusual congestion
wherever it may occur across the country from a myriad of sources...
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Seattle's Squirrelman Given 10-Day Reprieve, RV ...
April
10/08
Seattle's "Squirrelman," David Csaky, has been
given 10 days to move out of his homemade tree house and into a new
home, according to a report. Csaky, 52, will be given until April 18
to move out of his elaborate tree house, while neighbors have found an
RV for Squirrelman, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Wednesday.
City Light and the Seattle Department of Transportation own the lot,
under Interstate 5...
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Variable speed limits coming to Seattle's I-5 ...
April
9/08
The speed limit on a six-mile stretch of
Interstate 5 in Seattle will change several times a day when the state
Transportation Department installs new overhead electronic signs. The
department says variable speed control should help traffic flow more
smoothly and prevent rear-end collisions. Four signs will be installed
in the northbound lanes next year between Boeing Field and I-90.
Drivers near the airport might be held to 30 mph or 40 mph to reduce
the chance of them running into stop-and-go traffic downtown...
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Don
Bocek helped build I-5 in Seattle? ...
April
9/08
Construction industry veteran Donald Bocek died
March 29 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Bocek's son
said his father was most proud of his firm's work leveling the ground
for I-5 through the city...
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Multiple-Vehicle Collision Slows I-5 Commute Traffic ...
April
8/08
A multiple-vehicle collision blocked two
southbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Seattle during the morning commute
on Tuesday, backing up traffic to Lynnwood. No one was seriously hurt
in the 7 a.m. collision near Lake City Way, but Department of
Transportation cameras showed traffic nearly stopped in the southbound
lanes of the freeway in north Seattle...
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Is viaduct traffic heading to a street near you? ...
April
7/08
Moving people and goods around the construction
shutdown of Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct might be done with new
streetcars or trolleys, widening key city streets or even closing some
freeway ramps. Ideas centered on increasing the capacity of Interstate
5 through downtown, making more traffic on side streets possible, and
increasing east-west connections across the city. All or some part of
the 103,000 vehicle trips on the viaduct daily would have to be
diverted or eliminated during construction or after a permanent
teardown...
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Trooper's car hit by drunk driver; 3 injured ...
April
5/08
A drunk driver slammed into the rear of a
Washington State Patrol trooper's car early Saturday morning while the
trooper was on a traffic stop with another drunk driver in his back
seat. The trooper and two others were injured. The trooper had earlier
pulled over an 18-year-old Renton resident along Interstate 5 near
Fife on suspicion of drunk driving and placed her under arrest in the
back seat of his 2006 Crown Victoria patrol. A civilian rider was in
the front seat of the patrol car...
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Electric car demo fouled by breakdown ...
April
4/08
Phoenix Motorcars says its electric-powered
sport-utility trucks can reach top speeds of 95 mph and travel 100
miles on just one charge -- and so this week the company's vice
president of external relations flew in from Ontario, Calif., in part
to show off one to the U.S. secretary of transportation, who was
visiting Seattle. But Phoenix Motorcars' truck -- known as the SUT --
never made it to The Rainier Club downtown, where Secretary of
Transportation Mary Peters was speaking Friday morning. The vehicle
slowed to a crawl on Interstate 5 by a computer glitch, and the driver
had to hitch a ride...
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Officials: 66-mile chase became too dangerous ...
April
2/08
The 66-mile chase that led police through three
counties and reached speeds of 90 mph on Wednesday morning left some
wondering why police let it go on for so long. Simply put, police say
it was too dangerous. The chase began in South Everett at 3 a.m. when
the driver refused to pull over for a Snohomish County deputy. When
the chase ran into King County, Seattle police and the state patrol
joined in. The runaway driver hit speeds of up to 90 mph on Interstate
5...
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Video:
Driver escapes after high speed chase on I-5 ...
April
2/08
A routine traffic stop overnight Tuesday turned
into a high speed chase down Interstate 5 through several counties.
Deputies tried to pull over a suspected reckless driver in south
Snohomish County around 3:00 a.m. when officers said he took off. The
chase was captured on Washington DOT cameras as the drivers went south
on I-5 through King County and into Pierce County...
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Crash blocks two lanes of northbound Interstate 5 in Tacoma ...
April
1/08
A multiple-vehicle crash that was blocking the
two left lanes of northbound Interstate 5 near Portland Avenue this
morning has been cleared, but the traffic backup remains. There were
injuries as a result of the crash, the state Department of
Transportation reported this morning. The severity of the injuries was
not immediately known...
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