While the State Route 520 floating bridge connecting Seattle to points east over Lake Washington may have opened in spring 2016, it didn’t mark the full completion of the project off the water.
With the moniker of world’s longest floating bridge hovering around nearly every word written and spoken about the new State Route 520 bridge in Seattle, bridge owner Washington State Dept of Transportation has grown accustomed to the superlatives used when describing its now 1-year-old construction project.