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WSDOT adding new ways to watch bridge traffic
August 17th, 2010 at Tue, 17th, 2010 at 4:26 pm by Tad SooterThe state Department of Transportation is adding nine new traffic cameras to State Route 3 and State Route 104 this summer. The cameras will help motorists check traffic conditions near the Hood Canal Bridge.
Signal Electric, Inc. of Kent began work on the $456,452 project yesterday. The cameras will be up and running in October, according to a DOT news release. Radio transmitters and signs will also be added at the SR-3 and SR-305 intersection and on SR-3at Pioneer Hill Road.
The project could create its own traffic jams this week. According to the release, traffic will be alternated around the project sites from 7 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., Tuesday through Thursday. Crews are building pullouts along the highway to be used by crews.
Here’s the list of camera locations:
SR 3 south of Equestrian Drive, milepost 54.07
SR 3at Pioneer Hill Road NW, milepost 54.75
SR 3 at Pioneer Way NW, milepost 56.04
SR 3 at Big Valley Road, milepost 57.08
SR 3, south of Sunset Way NE, milepost 57.84
SR 3, north of Sunset Way NE, milepost 58.65
SR 3 at South Bridge Way NE, milepost 59.84
SR 104, north of Old Stark Road, milepost 13.13
SR 104 at Wheeler Street, milepost 15
You can sign up for e-mail or text message bridge traffic alerts by visiting www.wsdot.wa.gov and selecting “E-mail Update.”
Tad Sooter Tad Sooter is the editor of the Kingston Community News and covers the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula for the North Kitsap Herald. Follow him on facebook and reach him by e-mail or at (360) 779-4464.
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