Inside the world’s longest floating bridge: How engineers made Seattle’s new Lake Washington span bigger, better and safer. by Kurt Schlosser on March 30, 2016 at 6:00 am April 3, 2016 at 7:51 am ...

The bridge crosses Lake Washington from Seattle to the suburbs east of the lake (including Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond, ...

A new Lake Washington floating bridge? Originally published June 27, 2005 at 12:00 am. The state Department of Transportation's Highway 520 Bridge Project Team will hold two open houses ...

Many of the people traveling across one of Lake Washington’s floating bridges likely take the innovative spans for granted, but when the lake’s very first floating bridge opened to traffic on ...

Why do we have floating bridges on Lake Washington? Images courtesy of WSDOT [enlarge] The new floating bridge rests atop 77 concrete pontoons, the largest of which weigh 22 million pounds.

Department is preparing to start tolling on the Highway 520 floating bridge between Seattle and Bellevue. The department said today that drivers can now open Good To Go accounts for electronic ...

The new State Route 520 floating bridge opened a year ago Tuesday. RELATED: Changes to I-90 over Lake Washington are coming Though the bridge is carrying about 77,000 vehicles per day over Lake ...

IN THE TOUGH times of the late 1930s, 3,000 men got jobs building the Lacey V. Murrow bridge, aka the Lake Washington floating bridge. Federal money and tolls paid for the work. The bridge was ...

SEATTLE — Drivers who usually take the State Route 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington should make different travel plans this weekend. The Washington State Department of Transportation ...

Just in time for windy fall weather, crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) have replaced 30 worn and corroded anchor cables on the I-90 and SR 520 floating ...