Weekly traffic updates are posted on the WSDOT website.
SR 510, Yelm Loop – Stage 1
Neal Uhlmeyer, Project Engineer, 360-412-3420
www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr510/yelmloop/
Stage 1 of the SR 510 Yelm Loop Project builds a new roadway from Mud Run Road to Cullens Road and reduces congestion in the Yelm area.
TIME/DAYS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Monday, April 26 through Friday, April 30
DESCRIPTION: Construction of a new roadway.
LOCATION: Both directions of SR 510, from Mud Run Road to Cullens Road, mileposts 13.28 to 14.18.
EXPECT: Possible short-term closures between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, April 26 during tree falling operations.
They should probably update that to include April 27th as well as traffic on 510 has been clogged up all morning.
After Tuesday’s morning traffic was backed up because of SR 510 – Yelm Loop Bypass To Nowhere construction, I emailed Dennis Engel at the Washington State Department of Transportation, who replied to me quickly with some great info on the construction schedule.
Weekly traffic updates for Thurston County are published at on the wsdot website.
SR 510, Yelm Loop – Stage 1
Neal Uhlmeyer, Project Engineer, 360-412-3420
www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr510/yelmloop/
Stage 1 of the SR 510 Yelm Loop Project builds a new roadway from Mud Run Road to Cullens Road and reduces congestion in the Yelm area.
TIME/DAYS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Monday, April 19 through Friday, April 23
DESCRIPTION: Construction of a new roadway.
LOCATION: Both directions of SR 510, from Mud Run Road to Cullens Road, mileposts 13.28 to 14.18.
EXPECT: Crews will intermittently stop traffic for tree falling from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily Tuesday, April 20 through Thursday, April 22. Drivers can expect up to 20-minute delays.
MAINTENANCE
SR 510, Mullen Road, Yelm vicinity
Tom Gibbs, Maintenance Superintendent, 253-983-7550
TIME/DAYS: 8:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, April 20
DESCRIPTION: Guardrail repair.
LOCATION: Both directions of SR 510 at Mullen Road, milepost 7.5.
EXPECT: Flagger-controlled, one-way alternating traffic.
While this didn’t explain the snarled traffic I had witnessed, Engel emailed me back and explained the traffic was being caused by the ‘Clearing and Grubbing’ or better know as cutting down the tree in their way part of the beginning of the project.
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In Mayor Harding’s recent State of the City Address, he listed traffic as one of the things that had improved in Yelm in the last year. A recenst study graded the Level of Service, or LOS, of the downtown corridor at a ‘D’, improving from a failing grade of an ‘F’. An ‘A’ would be the highest score.
Has Yelm Traffic improved? Do more streets, more traffic lights, and wider streets improve traffic flow?
Check out this document submitted by a local Educator in August of 2005.
My life is dictated by the ebbs and flow of Yelm traffic. I moved to Yelm in 1986 to escape traffic horrors, even though it meant driving a longer distance to say Tacoma, Puyallup or other areas. These days, I can drive to Tacoma faster than I can drive from McKenna to Southworth Elementary School on Yelm Hwy/Ave
Still sound familiar?
The Loop of Doom - SR 510 Yelm Bypass
And where is the
SR 510 – Yelm Loop?
The Washington DOT has the status listed as:
“Purchase of right of way needed for the Yelm Loop corridor is funded and will be continuing.
The 2005 Transportation Partnership Project program allocated $33 million to fund the design and right of way for this project. Construction is unfunded.
The Legislature convenes in January 2009 to consider changes to the transportation budget which may include adjustments to some project schedules.”
While the loop/bypass may relive traffic associated with such daily congestion as the high school letting out, is it good for Yelm and Yelm businesses? I imagine it will allow some (more) horrible urban sprawl to form around the loops path, drawing consumers from established small business out to the mini malls and parking lots it will create.
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