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September 7, 2006

WSDOT removes SR 18's last traffic light

  • “Blood alley” is now wider and its lanes separated — improvements that are expected to reduce accidents.
    • By JOHN C. RYAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Photos courtesy WSDOT [enlarge]
    WSDOT on Aug. 31 opened 3.5 miles of widened eastbound lanes on state Route 18.

    JUST BEFORE the Labor Day weekend, state officials took another step in their decade-long effort to turn state Route 18 — an accident-plagued rural road in eastern King County — into a freeway. The state Department of Transportation opened eastbound lanes on a newly widened, 3.5-mile stretch of Route 18 east of Maple Valley and removed the last traffic light between Interstates 5 and 90 on the busy freight route.


     
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