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The system spans 8.5% of the state's public road mileage, but carries over half of the traffic. [2] [3] All other public roads in the state are either inside incorporated places (cities or towns) or are maintained by the county. [4] The state highway symbol is a white silhouette of George Washington's head (whom the state is named after).
Every year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume. This is expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2011, WSDOT calculated that the busiest section of ...
State Route 3 (SR 3) is a 59.81-mile-long (96.25 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, serving the Kitsap Peninsula in Mason and Kitsap counties. The highway begins at U.S. Route 101 (US 101) south of Shelton and travels northeast onto the Kitsap Peninsula through Belfair to Gorst, where it intersects SR 16 and begins its freeway.
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission shows 10 died in Franklin County wrecks that year. The highway sees 9,000 to 22,000 vehicles a day on average between Ritzville and Karchner street in ...
Northbound traffic was backed up to Lakeway Drive and southbound traffic was backed up past Meridian Street at 1:15 p.m., according to the according to the Washington State Department of ...
Washington’s total crashes, however, fell to a 10-year low of 78,116, down from 103,315 in 2022. That means there were far fewer crashes, but more deadly ones.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) estimates that average traffic volumes on SR 99, measured in terms of annual average daily traffic for 2016, range from a minimum of 17,000 vehicles on Everett Mall Way to a maximum of 97,000 at the First Avenue South Bridge in Seattle. [6]
In that time frame, Washington reported more than 240 fatal car crashes involving three or more vehicles — equaling 9.1% of the state’s collisions. Nationally, only 7.4% of multi-car crashes ...