Road Construction & Traffic Impacts

Below is information about current traffic impacts caused by projects.

Road construction, especially paving, is weather dependent and often delayed by inclement weather. Please keep in mind that the schedules provided are the most current available, but are subject to weather delays.

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N Main Ave - September 18 - 29: Intermittent flagging along N Main Avenue between N Depot Street and Simons Street and on adjacent streets Monday, September 18 through Friday, September 29. This traffic control is to allow Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) to install new overhead communications fiber that will bring new internet bandwidth to downtown Ridgefield. 

S 5th Street - September 28 - 30: S 5th Street, just east of Union Ridge Parkway will be closed Thursday, September 28 through Saturday, September 30 from 7AM-7PM, with a tentative extension through Tuesday, October 3. This closure is to allow a contractor to install a sewer main on S 5th Street.

S Union Ridge Parkway: No Parking on Union Ridge Parkway immediately north of S 5th Street during construction work for the Pioneer Street Extension Project. The contractor is using the area for staging. Please use caution in the area.

Our first priority is safety! Please use additional caution anywhere work is underway, be considerate of flaggers and workers, and report any safety concerns by calling us at 360-887-3557.

Nearby Interstate Traffic Impacts:

I-5 NB/SB - North Fork Lewis River Bridge - Bridge Deck Repair & Overlay: From 9PM Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, and continuing around-the-clock, for the next two months, three lanes of travel will be reduced down to two narrow lanes approaching the northbound span of the North Fork Lewis River Bridge, located between mileposts 19.36 and 20.0, just south of Woodland, WA. For everyone's safety, the speed limit has been reduced leading up to and through the work zone. 

Significant delays (up to 7 miles of back up) are expected during peak travel hours.
For more information on the project, visit Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT).

I-5/I-205 - Concrete Panel Replacement and Joint Rehabilitation: In summer 2022 and 2023, WSDOT's contractor, Granite Construction, will work to replace roughly 100 concrete panels along both directions of I-205 between the Glenn Jackson Bridge near the SR 14 interchange and the I-5/I-205 split and along southbound I-5 between Northeast 179th Street and the I-5/I-205 split.

During construction, travelers on both I-5 and I-205 will encounter nighttime single and double lane closures, ramp closures and temporary speed limit reductions at the following locations:

• Southbound I-5, between Northeast 199th Street and the SR 502 overpass - 55 mph 
• Southbound I-5, between the SR 502 overpass to just north of Northeast 179th Street - 45 mph 
• Both directions of I-205, between the Glenn Jackson Bridge and the I-5/I-205 split - 45 mph