As one of the first cities in the U.S. to lid a freeway when Freeway Park covered Interstate 5 in Seattle in 1976, the attraction of freeway lids has never fully dissipated from the minds of those in Seattle.
Today marks the opening of both an environmental hearing and informational open house on the $495 million Interstate 5 Mounts Road to Thorne Lane Interchange – Corridor Improvements project, an effort to ease congestions near Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Tacoma.