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Issaquah Bypass Studies Rocket to $3.3M

ISSAQUAH, WA-Soaring costs and controversies are raising doubts about the feasibility of the proposed new Sunset interchange on Interstate 90. Until the traffic issues can be resolved, further development in the area will be handcuffed.

By Janet Parker | Updated on May 06, 2002

ISSAQUAH, WA-The latest estimate for completing environmental studies associated with a new interchange is $1 million higher than the last and at least one city employee now says the project’s outlook is grim.

The proposed Sunset interchange project would include a 1.5-mile stretch of road designed to relieve Downtown traffic. Current counts place about 20,000 cars each day clogging the main North-South arterial, Front Street.

City officials are pinning their hopes on the project as a way out of its serious traffic snarls because until the traffic issues can be resolved, further development in the area will be severely restricted. Darkening the cloud passing over the proposed project are the objections of environmentalists concerned with the stretch of wetlands that would need to be crossed by the bypass to link Issaquah-Hobart Road to Interstate 90.

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