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By Marqise Allen Summer ferry reservations have a tendency to promote out simply as speedy as Seattle Seahawks tickets those days. And this yr will probably be no other while the preliminary spherical of reservations for our summer season crusing schedule are launched at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23. But there’s no have to worry within the event you arise empty the primary time around. There’s nonetheless desire on your marriage ceremony ceremony ceremony plans within the San Juan Islands, and you’ll nonetheless probably be capable to get to that appointment on Whidbey Island. Most of us can at all times no longer less than get on a ferry on their wanted day of travel. Please note, day would no longer imply time. There’s a difference. Ensuring you get to the place you’re going might take a few flexibility. Summer is a very busy time at our ferry  terminals, but making reservations early  will help ensure you get on the sailing you want. How does the reservation s...

A colleague talks about the emotional toil of work zone crashes, and why we need everyone's help to keep workers and travelers safe By Barbara LaBoe David Sacchini is tough. He's labored on construction and street crews, positioned out a storage fire at his dwelling and helped retailer a cherished one's life with CPR. He's been harm on the job. A few days earlier than Christmas in 2017, he was harm once more whereas running with our bridge repairs workforce on the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle. The truck he was in was struck with the aid of way of a drunk driver and driven 20 ft even although it had its brakes on. But when Sacchini returned to activity after that newest injury, he struggled. He was anxious being once more on the facet of a street or bridge and apprehensive concerning the duty for his crew. At instances his coronary center was beating so difficult throughout panic assaults that it felt find it irresistible was leaping out of his chest....

Bickford to Gold Bar project has its own major closure, wants out from the shadow of 2018 trestle project By Frances Fedoriska Similar names. Same highway. Same kind of work. You'll excuse our NULL paving tasks on US 2 in Snohomish County if they are feeling just like the Doublemint Twins. Now the newer project, kicking off this spring, is putting the checklist straight. "I'm my very own project," the Bickford-to-Gold Bar paving mission said. "I'm no longer the trestle. I'm no longer in Everett. I'm my very own thing, and I wish of us understand that." The US 2/I-5 to Bickford Avenue mission that started final yr rehabs about three miles of pavement adding the Hewitt Avenue Trestle. That will hold into this construction season and it is a large deal. But the brand new mission needs you to understand it is no moment fiddle. "Three miles, that is impressive," Gold Bar said. "And little question the trestle is a large ...

By Barbara LaBoe Less than a minute. That's all that stored Rob Shepherd as he labored alongside State Route 3 supporting with soil samples on a geotechnical group on March 19, 2019. Shepherd, a transportation engineer, had simply left his work pickup at the street shoulder whilst the group heard a semitruck barreling down on them, scraping the guardrail. They have been already status at the different aspect of the guardrail, but a couple of hit the deck, a few rolling down an embankment to get as distant as possible. "I jumped and closed my eyes, after which hit and tumbled down the hill," Shepherd said. Next they heard a "terrible explosion," Shepherd said, which was the semi remarkable the pickup and slamming it 150 toes ahead into the drill truck. The three-quarter pickup was overwhelmed like a soda can, slightly recognizable within the wreckage. The crushed pickup is smashed up against a drill truck with the semi cab resting on top of i...