Expansion joints are created through the installation of a soft material, such as wood or foam, along the edges of concrete slabs. The flexibility of these soft materials prevents damage that would ...

Drivers had a lot to deal with on southbound I-5 through Seattle Tuesday morning, including an emergency repair on an expansion joint, backing up traffic for hours. This happened just south of the ...

If the weather holds, southbound I-5 through Seattle will be shut down this weekend for the first of a summer’s worth of weekend closures for expansion joint repairs. 35 metal expansion joints need to ...

Planned work to repair expansion joints on I-5 near the West Seattle Bridge has been postponed, with the Washington State Department of Transportation saying there is “a lot happening this morning.” ...

The state’s failure to modernize 50-year-old expansion joints on Interstate 5 came back to bite Seattle motorists Wednesday morning, when emergency repairs snarled traffic from the West Seattle Bridge ...

An emergency-repair job on an Interstate 5 South expansion joint clogged traffic through downtown Seattle Wednesday morning. The joint was “about 50 years old,” according to a Washington State ...

A section of the A38 has been closed due to a bridge expansion joint defect, highways bosses have said. The eastbound ...

SEATTLE — The Washington State Department of Transportation's bridge maintenance team is repairing an expansion joint that came loose Friday morning, causing heavy traffic on I-5 south at the Spokane ...

KYTC officials said the closure is part of larger repair efforts and closing the lanes to traffic is necessary to ensure ...