By Pepper Fisher
SEQUIM – It’s finally been decided by WSDOT officials and local stakeholders what will be done to improve safety and traffic flow along Highway 101 east of Sequim, but no one knows yet when work will begin.
State transportation officials say they’ve settled on options that will finish the on-and-off ramps at the Simdars Road interchange and build a frontage road from Simdars to Palo Alto Road.
WSDOT spokesman Mark Krulish told KONP that once the frontage road is complete, access to 101 at Happy Valley Road and Palo Alto Road will be closed.
Krulish says funding for the $30.5 million project is part of the $17 billion Move Ahead Washington transportation package approved by the state legislature in March, but he says WSDOT officials do not yet know the timing of the design and construction of the work.