Blue Byline » DOT project http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 18 months of misery better be worth new SR 16 offramp http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/06/24/18-months-of-misery-better-be-worth-new-sr-16-offramp/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/06/24/18-months-of-misery-better-be-worth-new-sr-16-offramp/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:25:05 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=442 As the Trib’s editorial (6-24) so eloquently points out, the newly completed DOT offramp will create a seamless connection between I-5 and SR 16, solve the long-term traffic engineering problems in the T-dome area, and create a brighter future for drivers, everywhere. Yay.

For those of us who have slogged from I-5 to SR 16 every afternoon, the last 18 months have been a descent into a merging, tail-gating, road rage-filled hell.

If you’ve been driving the I-5 northbound to SR 16 route regularly, I don’t have to tell you about the colossal backups, the abrupt …

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