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Barrier repair work on I-5 south of Tumwater has been canceled for today

The exclamation point marks the site of barrier repair work that will slow I-5 traffic south of Tumwater.
The exclamation point marks the site of barrier repair work that will slow I-5 traffic south of Tumwater. WSDOT Courtesy

The Washington State Department of Transportation announced Monday morning that barrier repair work scheduled for that day has been canceled. It’s unclear when the construction will be rescheduled to.

The work was scheduled for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, May 8, and the left lanes in both directions of the freeway near 113th Avenue Southwest would have been closed.

Traffic south of Tumwater on I-5 will be slowed for several hours when crews repair the barrier that was recently damaged by a semi-truck, the state Department of Transportation announced.

This story was originally published May 8, 2023 at 8:06 AM.

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
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