BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Downtown Bellingham drivers can expect delays on State Street for the next nine months as a bridge replacement project gets well underway.
The State-Ellis Bridge over Whatcom Creek will be intermittently closed as crews relocate utility lines.
Traffic will be rerouted to Ohio Street, Cornwall Avenue, and York Street.
The new bridge will be a single-span concrete structure, and the in-stream habitat below will be restored.
The current bridge over Whatcom Creek is a timber structure supported by wooden piles, originally built in the 1930s.