The in basket: My step-daughter, Ronda Armstrong, of the Lake Symington area says there has been trenching work going on where Holly Road ends at Seabeck Highway and the rumor in the area is that a roundabout will be built there.
I found a difficult-to-decipher mention in the county’s six-year road improvement plan (TIP) of $1.6 million in improvements to that intersection in 2015, but no mention of a roundabout. And the weekly road report made no mention of the trenching work when I looked.
The out basket: The rumor is true, says Doug Bear of Kitsap County Public Works.
“The work being done there currently is under-grounding of utilities in preparation of the intersection improvements next year,” he said. “The project was on the road report previously but slipped off last week. I’ve reposted it.
“The project you referenced in the TIP is the intersection improvement project at that location. Part of that project is determining what improvements would be most effective there. The engineers evaluated different options and a roundabout is considered the best approach to improve that intersection. The rumor is correct!”
The listing in the TIP won’t be modified to show the planned roundabout until the next TIP is approved by the county commissioners at the end of the year.
How are they going to mitigate the wetlands?
Is it going to large enough for semi’s,hay trucks and 14′ wide modular/mobile home?
Why put a roundabout at the intersection of Holly Road and Seabeck Highway? Making it a three-way stop would cost less than a thousand dollars and one day instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars and seven months.
After all, most of the traffic on Seabeck Highway at that intersection are slowing down to turn onto Holly Road anyway. It would be no inconvenience and just as safe to just stop at that intersection.