Washington State Route 203
Washington State Route 203 ( SR 203 short ) is a state highway in King County and Snohomish County. The 39.04 km long road begins in the south at Washington State Route 202 in Fall City and leads northward through Carnation and Duvall to the end point on U.S. Highway 2 in Monroe. All of these cities are located on the Snoqualmie River, which will run the SR 203 copies coarse.
The track was originally composed of four separate road sections, Fall City, Carnation, Carnation - Duvall Duvall - Monroe and Lewis Street in Monroe. The latter was in 1912 the first road with solid lining in Monroe; the four streets were summarized in 1937 Secondary State Highway 15B (SSH 15B). SSH 15B was at the highway renumbering 1964 on SR 203 Two expansion projects over the track are currently in the planning stage and will be launched in 2010.
Route description
State Route 203 (SR 203) begins in the south at the junction with the Washington State Route 202, a largely running east -west trunk road, in Fall City. There, the road bears the name of Fall City - Carnation Road and leads in a northwesterly direction along the railway Monroe Tanner, which is operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. After the road to Rutherford Slough crossed twice, the road approaches the shore of the Snoqualmie River. SR 203 leads northward, crossing the Tolt River to Carnation inside. After leaving the place where the road takes you Carnation - Duvall Road and crosses the Carnation Farm Road before hitting an arc to the west to cross the Stillwater Hill Road. Finally, the road follows the original direction to the north via a roundabout on the road to 124 Duvall. There crosses SR 203 Woodinville - Duvall Road and Cherry Valley Road before it winds along the banks of the Snoqualmie River along the Snohomish County. Outside of Duvall and outside of King County is SR 203 to Duvall - Monroe Road, which crosses on the way north to the Skykomish River and leads as Lewis Street to Monroe. In Monroe, the country road leading to the Woods Creek along and crosses the Main Street Monroe, near the bus station of Greyhound Lines. After that, the road crosses the operated by the BNSF Railway railway Everett Spokane and finally ends at the junction with U.S. Highway 2 and the Chain Lake Road. South of the intersection of Lewis Street is used daily by about 15,000 motorists.
History
SR 203 was originally composed of four routes that connected the past to their cities together, Fall City, Carnation, Duvall and Monroe; they were called Fall City - Carnation Road Carnation - Duvall Road Duvall - Monroe Road and Lewis Street - these names are still used to name each street segment. Lewis Street was built in 1912 for the first Highway with solid pavement in the region. The road runs parallel to the former railway line Monroe Tanner. These four individual routes in 1937 connected to the Secondary State Highway 15B (SSH 15B), as the primary and secondary highway system was created. 1964 Highway system was modified and renumbered the highways in the state; SSH 15B was to SR 203
Since then, several projects have been carried out by the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ), which should lead to the improvement of the traffic flow. In 2004, a roundabout was at the intersection with the 124th Street, south of Duvall, furnished.
In the first seven kilometers from the south occurred in 2002, four fatal accidents. In response, the WSDOT planned the construction of noise imaging strips and guardrails on the 29 km of road within the King County. A similar project was planned on the ten- kilometer section in Snohomish County, where occurred between 2002 and 2009 348 accidents. These two projects were implemented by August 2010.