The in basket: David Ely read last week’s Road Warrior column
about the off-ramp to be built next year to allow southbound
traffic approaching the Warren Avenue bridge to exit and proceed
downhill to Lebo Boulevard.
He said he was confused by my assertion that it would lead to the
intersection of Callahan Drive and Lebo Boulevard. They don’t
intersect, he said. Juniper is the name of the street that meets
Lebo. He used to live in that area, he added
The in basket: David Ely read last week’s Road Warrior column about
the off-ramp to be built next year to allow southbound traffic
approaching the Warren Avenue bridge to exit and proceed downhill
to Lebo Boulevard. It said the ramp will improve access to the area
around Harrison Hospital and reduce the amount of left turn traffic
southbound at Sheridan, which now takes needed time away from
northbound traffic wishing to go straight.
But he said he was confused by my assertion that it would lead to
the intersection of Callahan Drive and Lebo Boulevard. They don’t
intersect, he said. Juniper is the name of the street that meets
Lebo. He used to live in that area, he added
The out basket: Well, I’ll be switched, as they say. David is
right. In more than 40 years of covering events in this town, I had
never noticed that the street that takes you uphill from Lebo to
arc onto the Warren Avenue Bridge is Juniper, not Callahan.
Callahan apparently ends where it intersects Juniper, even though
the stop sign is on Juniper and Callahan traffic is free to proceed
without stopping.
I had always assumed that as you proceeded under the bridge on
Callahan that it remained Callahan all the way to Lebo. But it
changes names.
I have to think David was being a little coy, though. I’d bet
anyone living on Juniper Street has to give details instructions to
any stranger trying to find his or her home, given the odd
alignment of streets and street names.
At least I was right when I reported that the ramp would extend
from the bridge to Callahan. Luke Korpi, in his last hour with the
city of Bremerton engineering staff before leaving for a new job in
Seattle, told me Tuesday that it’s still Callahan where the ramp
will end. It doesn’t become Juniper until farther down the
hill.
