Salmonberry Road upgrades depend on a couple of things
January 27th, 2012 by travis bakerThe in basket: Richard Brooks wonders when Salmonberry Road in South Kitsap will be repaved. It has needed resurfacing since 1965, he said, and gets patched about six times a year.
The out basket: Salmonberry is a peculiar looking road, in that the eastbound lane is in pretty good shape but the westbound lane is a mess. Most of those patch jobs Richard mentions must have been in that lane.
Doug Bear of Kitsap County Public works says it has a chip seal surface, which involves pouring gravel over hot oil and letting traffic compact it into a paved surface. That was last done in 1972.
The county’s biannual rating of Salmonberry had it at 55 on a scale of 100 in 2010. It will be rated again this year. If it has dropped below 49, it will get a new chip seal, Doug said.
The county plans to do a $100,000 study in 2013 of widening the lanes of Salmonberry and building sidewalks from Bethel Road to Jackson, but the actual work doesn’t appear on the county’s road plan, which goes out to 2017.
About $700,000 in improvements to Jackson Avenue’s intersection with Salmonberry is on the road plan for 2017.
Tags: chip seal, Salmonberry, South Kitsap
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January 28th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Wow lets save 100k. Every road in South Kitsap needs paving, widening and sidewalks. No need for a study. Salmonberry would be a good candidate to start the process. Use the 100k to start not study