Puget Sound Gateway Program - SR 167 Completion Project

Welcome to the Puget Sound Gateway Program’s “SR 167 Completion Project”. This Project constructs 6 new miles of tolled expressway between Puyallup and the Port of Tacoma, along with sidewalks and shared-use paths for non-motorized travelers. The purpose of this project is to ease congestion on local roads and highways, by giving freight direct access to local ports and warehousing centers, which will also improve safety for the traveling public.
Learn more on our SR 167 Completion Project’s webpage: wsdot.wa.gov/construction-pla...

[@sallymoen7932]

I'm excited about this. Whatever is done to improve conditions for peds.

[@hobog]

1:58 2:26 if the roundabout is two-lanes thick, what makes slip lanes worth the added encouragement of unsafe driving? Roundabouts do not need slip lanes to be effective. Riparian, pedestrian-bike, and native relation improvements are great!

[@billdescoteaux]

This is a great project for this area. But if we're going to build toll roads, let's consider building the Evergreen State Turnpike - to run the route that has been discussed for years as I-605, from Chehalis to Mount Vernon. But please, if this ever gets built, use human toll takers, or credit/debit card gates, or standardize Good To Go with EZPass so that out-of-staters don't get gouged for using it, or else they won't, and I-5 will continue to be jammed.

[@CyanideCarrot]

As someone who lives in the path of most proposed 605 routes, HELL TO THE FUCKING NO

[@CyanideCarrot]

Stop this madness. We don't need more freeways creating more traffic and more pollution. When will this agency ever learn

[@BD-lq4id]

Just my opinion, respect to everyone working on this tolled project, but toll roads are unethical. More reason why Washington state has the most regressive tax system in the nation. Never forget when Washington state and WSDOT had people vote to allow tolling of the new Narrows Bridge with the promise that the toll funds would be to pay for the new bridge, only to adjust the law so the toll profits would divert to the general state transportation fund. This new project, as stated by the WSDOT, is mainly to benefit corporations like Amazon, so they can have quicker access between their warehouses and the port. Washington state will continue to prioritize corporate interests rather than the interest of the citizens of its state. Sure they'll build an underutilized "shared use path" and make some "native" wetlands but that's just a smokescreen to placate the population and puyallup tribe.

[@gioslost]

Wrong. Amazon doesn’t do a lot of volume from the port down 167. It does it down I-5 to Lacey.

[@delmarquisclark1590]

....but it's tolled.. :/

[@Kattbirb]

@@delmarquisclark1590 Tolls and congestion pricing, it's what's coming everywhere.

[@streltsy]

Is the trail seriously going to be called that? 😂

[@satoshimaebara7190]

And? What’s the problem?

[@streltsy]

@@satoshimaebara7190 take a guess

[@Kattbirb]

@@streltsy Are you new to the area? A lot of our places are given Salish names.

[@satoshimaebara7190]

@@Kattbirb Right? The tourist mentality is a common thing, I guess.

[@hobog]

Get with the times streltsy. That said, the Duwamish Tribe and Skagit native groups are still shortchanged by WA and fed gov. Duwamish still unrecognized, and deserves rights to do a condo-commercial block like what's happening by Vancouver BC's burrard bridge. The Skagit dams still lack salmon passages