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The temporary lanes are gone and the speed limit is back to 60 for drivers from Port Orchard to Gig Harbor. Crews opened the new eastbound state Route 16 bridge in Purdy to traffic May 11, the ...
New state funding is meant to relieve traffic for Gig Harbor drivers along Wollochet Drive at the state Route 16 interchange. The city expects to get $1.7 million to add two right turn lanes on ...
Traffic was getting around the incident in a single line on the shoulder, officials said. Rolled over trailer on SR-16 in Gig Harbor causes miles of traffic backups, WSDOT says Skip to main content
State Route 16 (SR 16) is a 27.16-mile-long (43.71 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, connecting Pierce and Kitsap counties. The highway, signed as east–west, begins at an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) in Tacoma and travels through the city as a freeway towards the Tacoma Narrows.
The spur route was originally part of a Primary State Highway 14 (PSH 14) branch connecting Port Orchard to Tacoma that later became SR 16 during the 1964 highway renumbering. [13] SR 16 was moved to a freeway bypass of Purdy in 1978 and the former route was split between SR 302 and the newly created SR 302 Spur. [2] [14] [15]
By the late 1980s, as developers began constructing housing and shopping mall projects in Gig Harbor, Highway 16 was expanded and realigned from a meandering two-lane country road to a four-lane freeway that stretched from Tacoma to Gorst. As a result, traffic congestion grew enough to where backups began occurring.
Public safety is a high priority for the city and legislators. So is addressing traffic congestion on state Route 16.
Gig Harbor is located along State Route 16, about 6 mi ... A third bridge opened in 2007 to carry eastbound traffic on the expanded State Route 16 freeway. [6]