Construction to slow I-5 traffic south of Olympia beginning Monday

The speed limit on the portion of I-5 undergoing construction will be 60 mph.

The Associated Press

5/9/2008

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Drivers on I-5 south of Olympia — between Maytown and Grand Mound — will have to slow down, starting Monday.

The Transportation Department is lowering the speed limit on a 12-mile stretch to 60 mph for a two-year construction project.

The $88 million project will add a lane in each direction.

The department says about 60,000 vehicles travel that stretch of highway each day, and about one in five vehicles is a freight truck.