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Atkinson, WSDOT Improve Puget Sound Connections By Chuck MacDonald CEG CORRESPONDENT
The southern tip of Puget Sound in Washington is a buzz of transportation with boat traffic — both for commerce and for pleasure — railroad tracks, road traffic on Interstate 5 and activity flowing north to Tacoma, Seattle and beyond. The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has focused on a project in this area between the city of DuPont and Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM). Working with contractor Atkinson Construction, WSDOT has supervised work that will decrease congestion and bring new safety measures in a $240 million design-build project that is about 85 percent complete. This project, the I-5 - Mounts Road to SteilacoomDuPont Road - Corridor Improvements job, will extend high-occupancy lanes in both directions on I-5, and improve access between the city of DuPont and the military base. see PUGET page 8
The new I-5/Steilacoom-DuPont Road overpass fully opened to travelers March 22, 2026. During November 2025, construction crews finished pouring the concrete driving surface of the new I-5 SteilacoomDuPont bridge over the railroad tracks.