The Sylvester Road Bridge will close for about 6 months, beginning, Tuesday, July 5.
The 80-year-old bridge will be demolished and replaced with a new bridge.
The new bridge is scheduled to open around Dec. 19.

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After nearly 80 years of the service, the Sylvester Road Bridge is about to be replaced.

Normandy Park Public Works director Peter Landry said there will be occasional daytime closures in May with the bridge expected to be closed for five or six months some time in early June. It will not reopen until November or December, according to Landry.

It is located in the 16800 block of Southwest Sylvester Road.

The bridge has several condition problems including cracked columns and girders, as well as weathered and worn rails and decks.

The concrete bridge was build during the Great Depression era and has spanned Fox Creek for eight decades.
The replacement will be a full span bridge with no supporting columns. The new bridge is better designed to withstand earthquakes. However, it will look similar to the current bridge with concrete rails.

A traffic detour has been developed utilizing 14th Avenue Southwest and Southwest 160th Street as primary routes with access via 12th Place Southwest off of Sylvester Road.