This project realigned state route 9, eliminating some troublesome 90 degree turns and added much needed safety improvements. Both the traveling public and regional commerce were the beneficiaries of this project.

The project had the unusual visitor one day when a local private pilot used the road as a landing strip for his single engine Cessna. The aircraft landed on the first lift of the paving and taxied to the job shack.

The Everett Area Branch received multiple awards for the 8.5 mile Interstate 5 paving overlay and road widening project in Lynnwood, Washington. This project received the Carl Minor Outstanding Paving Project on a State Highway, the WSDOT Award of Merit in Western Washington, and the WSDOT Smoothness Award for Western Washington.

With this project WSDOT was looking to test two “quiet modified asphalt pavement” test sections on I-5. An open graded friction course (OGFC) and an open graded friction course incorporating asphalt rubber (OGFC-AR) was each placed. To manufacture the OGFC-AR, Wilder subcontracted with Granite to provide and operate the Rubber Plant which incorporates the granulated recycled rubber into the conventional hot-mix asphalt process.

Tom Zamzow Wilder’s Western Division Manager noted, “Awards such as these recognize the considerable effort of the entire project team. The estimators, the management team, the plant operators, the paving crews that laid the mix, the traffic control personnel, along with the support of our subcontractors each was critical to our overall success of the project and owns a piece of these awards.”