SHINE — The state Department of Transportation has scheduled intermittent closures of the Hood Canal Bridge between 11 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. Monday.
During this time, crews will open the bridge to traffic several times to ease congestion. The traffic openings will be unscheduled and performed as workloads allow.
The closure could mean that delivery of the Peninsula Daily News will be delayed. The newspaper is printed in Everett and brought back over the bridge in the early morning hours.
Contractor crews are replacing the Hood Canal Bridge’s gear boxes, hydraulic hoses and adjusting and aligning the guide rollers that are responsible for operating the draw span for marine traffic.
Work began this spring and is expected to continue through this month.
Transportation awarded the $5.2 million project to Northbank Civil and Marine Inc. in October.
Drivers can get information at www.wsdot.com/traffic/hoodcanal.
