The in basket: Dave Dahlke of South Kitsap asks about last year’s widening of Mile Hill Drive, “Why was the southwestern signal pole installed so close to the road and California Avenue? Why didn’t the county include a right-turn lane onto California Avenue, as there is at the Woods Road intersection?”
The in basket: Dave Dahlke of South Kitsap asks about last year’s
widening of Mile Hill Drive, “Why was the southwestern signal pole
installed so close to the road and California Avenue? Why didn’t
the county include a right-turn lane onto California Avenue, as
there is at the Woods Road intersection?
“If the county ever wants a right turn lane at this intersection
the signal pole will have to be relocated. I see this as poor
planning,” Dave said.
The out basket: Doug Bear of Kitsap County Public Works replies
that projections of traffic on eastbound Mile Hill Drive at
California Avenue 20 years out don’t call for enough right turn
traffic there to warrant buying the extra right of way and the
longer pole cross arms that a right turn lane would require.
That probably also would have been true of the Woods Road
intersection, but the Shell convenience store built there a few
years back gave the county an opportunity to have a right turn lane
added at the expense of the developer to handle added traffic
attributable to the store.
