The in basket: Natasha Champion asks, “Do you know if there is a future plan to put in a light or a
roundabout at the intersection of Clifton Road and Old Belfair Highway in Belfair?
“Currently there is a four-way stop and many accidents and near misses,” she said.
The out basket: That intersection is the state’s responsibility, as it is on Highway 300, the short spur that’s a state highway as far as Belfair State Park.
Steve Bennett, operations engineer for the Olympic Region of state highways says the Statewide Intersection Priority List makes no mention of that Belfair intersection, so no signal or roundabout is planned there for the foreseeable future.
I’ve never had much trouble getting through there, though I noticed it was considered enough of a problem that law enforcement was directing traffic through it when the Clifton Lane leg was blocked for the recent Taste of Hood Canal. That probably had to do with the greatly increased pedestrian traffic that day.
The intersection would work better if people could learn how to count to 4..