The King County Department of Transportation will host an open house to gather comments on the initial plan for replacing the Edgewick Bridge, which crosses the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River on 468th Avenue SE, south of I-90.

The open house will be held:

The Edgewick Bridge, originally constructed in 1920 and moved to its current location in 1951, has been showing signs of deterioration in recent years. Due to its narrowness and inability to carry heavy trucks, the bridge has now become obsolete. The bridge also has a sub-standard alignment that limits sight distance.

Due to its age and structural deficiencies, the Department of Transportation is proposing to remove the existing bridge and its approaches and construct a replacement structure.

The project is currently in the design phase. At the open house, the public is invited to review and comment on the initial plan. The project is scheduled for construction in 2004 and has an estimated total cost of $6.4 million.