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Sammamish Project on Issaquah-Fall City C O MM U NI T Y

Road - Work is scheduled to begin
this summer

Notice just came from the City of over three miles in length. It is
Sammamish that they have all the not unreasonable to expect a
required permits to begin the first significant three mile traffic jam
phase of the large road project twice daily, even before our
on the Issaquah-Fall City Road residents are added to the roads.
(IFCR). Their current construction
estimate is that the scope of work What is the HOA doing?
will take two years.
We have asked the City to adjust
The first portion is the closure the signal light timing at Klahanie
of the heavily traveled IFCR so Blvd and Issaquah-Pine Lake road
that construction can start on the to allow more cars in each cycle
new bridge they are constructing to exit in the morning hours and
between 247th and Klahanie enter in the afternoon. We are
Drive. While all projections in a also asking for temporary traffic
complicated project like this are lights or four-way stop signs
optimistic before it begins, past where neighborhoods intersect
history with road projects says with Klahanie Drive/Blvd. We
we should expect it will take are discussing plans to use our
longer than the current timetable Klahanie Neighborhood Patrol
of eight months. officers to help manage the traffic
flow.
While they construct the bridge,
Klahanie Drive will remain open We have requested a new S L O W
for traffic coming from the crosswalk at 242nd to help
east and north to use Klahanie students safely cross the road to D R IVE
Drive as a main access route to get to and from the school bus.
Sammamish, Issaquah, Bellevue The entire project will require a
and beyond. For all those heading good deal of patience from all of S A F E LY
home in the afternoon, they will us and perhaps some adjusted
also have to traverse through work schedules.
Klahanie since the IFCR will be
closed to eastbound traffic at Please note that the businesses in
247th by the Pacific Cascade the Klahanie Center will be heavily
Middle School. impacted, so please make the
extra effort to use their services to
When the planners at the city help keep them all in business.
studied traffic volumes several
years ago, they estimated 1,800
cars used the road each day.
This figure may be low based
on the growth over the past few
years. The Police tell us that a
mile long line of stopped cars will
contain 200 vehicles. Klahanie
Blvd. and Drive are just a little

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