It was rush hour. As I pulled up to the stop sign, four cars were waiting in the southbound deceleration lane for their turn to enter the median and cross the northbound lanes. Two lanes of vehicles were racing past me at 50 to 60 mph. I don't scare easily at the wheel, but I don't think I've ever seen a more impossibly scary crossing in my life. I did a U-turn and drove down to the Mullenix interchange to get on the freeway.
Potholes get down into the road base and are deeper and more destructive.
Steve Bennett, an engineer with the state, said the state and county are talking about a temporary repair this summer, and adds that there are tentative plans for a paving project between 2001 and 2003. Other problems at that intersection are the mounding up the asphalt at the downhill left-turn stop bar, and the rutting in the mainline. Sounds like we'll have to live with those for another two or three years. They asked why there is no warning on Sidney Avenue at Tremont Street that Sidney is going to be a dead-end and not lead to the freeway. There's one just west of there at Port Orchard Boulevard.