Tagged: Lake Washington Floating Bridge

4:33am

Wed December 28, 2011
transportation choices

520 Tolls starting tomorrow

Tomorrow (Thursday, 12-29-11), electronic tolls will kick in on the 520 bridge across lake Washington.

A series of technical glitches caused multiple past delays.  But now, the reader boards are going live and billing drivers on the most popular route between Seattle and the east side.

There are many creative ways to get around the tolls, but you’re bound to have to pay, sooner or later.

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2:36pm

Wed May 18, 2011
Northwest History

Tolls begin on new Lk. Washington floating bridge in summer - 1940

With the start - or rather, resumption of tolling on the 520 bridge a few weeks away, history buffs are recalling the opening of the first Lake Washington Floating Bridge, 71 years ago.

Skeptics predicted it would sink, and that tolling would never pay for the cost of construction. Sound familiar?

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