“We want to start with an apology,” wrote the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) on July 1, after a highway closure caused heavy traffic backups and dismay last weekend.
A section of northbound I-405 in Kirkland was closed from the night of Friday, June 27, through the early morning of Monday, June 30.
“Traffic backups were long. Local neighborhood streets were congested. For many, the detours simply didn’t feel like enough,” wrote WSDOT…