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SR 548 was created in 1991 from the county- and city-maintained Peace Portal Drive, Blaine Road, and Grandview Road between Ferndale and Blaine. [22] [23] In 2010, WSDOT improved the I-5 interchange in Blaine at a cost of $13.2 million by converting it to a dogbone interchange using two new roundabouts. [24]
The stretch of I-5 through Downtown Seattle is the busiest highway in Washington state, with a daily average of over 274,000 vehicles in the mainline and express lanes. [16] The least-traveled segment of I-5 is located at SR 548 in Blaine, with a daily average of 6,600 vehicles. [17]
Blaine lies between the mountains east of Vancouver, the flatlands of Skagit County, Washington, the North Cascades (including Mount Baker), and the south end of Vancouver Island. Blaine has a borderline climate between mediterranean (Csb) and maritime (Cfb), which provides fairly mild weather from the rest of the Pacific Northwest. With annual ...
Being the most direct route between the major cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, the crossing is the third-busiest on the border with up to 4,800 cars a day. Trucks and other commercial vehicles are prohibited from this location and use the Pacific Highway Border Crossing , which is 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) eastward.
The Pacific Highway Border Crossing connects the city of Blaine, Washington and the city of Surrey, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. Interstate 5/Washington State Route 543 on the American side joins British Columbia Highway 15 on the Canadian side. Since the 1970s, commercial vehicles driving directly between Blaine and Surrey have ...
I-205 is a loop that bypasses Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington; its Washington section was completed in 1982 and the entire highway opened in 1983. [44] I-405: 30.30: 48.76 I-5 / SR 518 in Tukwila: I-5 / SR 525 in Lynnwood: 1958 [29] current I-405 is a loop that bypasses Seattle to serve the Eastside and was completed in 1969. [37] I-705
Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington—I-205; Tacoma, Washington—I-705; Seattle, Washington—I-405; I-5 will have a complete set of auxiliary routes (i.e. 105, 205, 305, 405, 505, 605, 705, 805, 905), with the completion of I-905 in San Diego County. Currently, I-80 and I-90 are the only two Interstates to have complete sets of ...
The Washington State Ferries, except the route to Sidney, British Columbia, were legally included in the state highway system in 1994; a new State Route 339 was created at that time for the passenger-only Seattle-Vashon Ferry. [11]