Overnight Ramp Closure Severs Vancouver From IKEA; Households Asked to Ration Tealights
By Marsh Pendleton · Sightings Desk ·
SALMON CREEK — An overnight closure of the southbound I-5 to southbound I-205 ramp will sever Vancouver from its most direct route to IKEA on Friday night, forcing households across the county to confront a detour of several minutes on the sacred tax-free run to Cascade Station.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is closing the ramp for paving and striping as part of a $4.5 million summer concrete rehabilitation, with reopening scheduled for Saturday morning.
One Salmon Creek household has preemptively postponed a Billy bookcase acquisition it had planned for eight months and executed no part of.
“We’re managing,” the father of the household said, counting the remaining tealights. “The kids understand. Mostly.”
He reported that his son, 9, ate homemade Swedish meatballs at dinner Thursday and pronounced them “not the same,” an assessment the family did not dispute.
The ramp is scheduled to reopen before most stores do. The errand was never urgent. The family confirmed the trip will happen anyway, this weekend, on principle.
Filed after: WSDOT's overnight closure of the southbound I-5 to southbound I-205 connection July 10–11 for paving, part of a $4.5M rehab. Real. — Ed.