Traffic Jam at Burley-Olalla
July 16th, 2009 by ed friedrichJust came into work. Was going to be early for once, but got stuck in traffic on Highway 16 by the Burley-Olalla work. It’s down to one lane. We stopped way back by Purdy and it took 40 minutes to get through. The cool thing was they have the overpass paved and we got to go over it for the first time. Now they’re repaving the former detour route to make it an off-ramp. This is all westbound.
I don’t know what they’ll be doing tomorrow, but I think I’ll go around. The easiest way is to get off the highway at Purdy, go through Purdy and before the road merges back onto the highway you can drop down along Burley Lagoon. We old-time locals call it the “old highway” because that’s what it was. The real name, at least when it gets into Kitsap County, is Bethel-Burley Road. You can get back on the “new” highway at Mullenix Road or stay on Bethel-Burley and it’ll take you into Port Orchard.
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July 16th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I got stuck in that mess for an hour today! While sitting there for an hour, I thought one of two things was going to happen, 1) I would pee my pants or 2) my old car would overheat. Fortunately, neither did. I wish I knew the backup was going to be that bad so I could have taken off at Purdy.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
That’s hilarious, only because everybody can relate to it. I knew they were going to be working, but took the highway anyway because it hadn’t been so bad before. Not tomorrow.