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Carmaggedon out!!

Posted in Ranting and Raving, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Madrona Way, now free of Checkpoint Charlie for the first time in nine months. (David Svien photo)

   The corner of Madrona Way and Sherman, now free of Checkpoint Charlie for the first time in nine months. (David Svien photo)

Our long national nightmare is done.

If you had nine months in the Madrona Way road project bingo game, time to cash in.

Checkpoint Charlie, which has loomed outside Coupeville Sports World Headquarters, right there on the intersection of Madrona and Sherman, is no more.

Freedom. Sweet, sweet driving freedom.

No longer do a kazillion cars have to make a right, shoot up past my duplex, then make the scintillating choice between taking Black Rd. or the highway.

Now we have TWO, I say TWO ways in to town.

What an age to live in…

Now what insignificant thing will I have to whine about?

Oh, don’t worry about me. I’m sure I’ll find something.

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Carmageddon approaches!!

Posted in Change is in the air, tagged , , , on July 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

My new yard sign for the next six months or so. (David Svien photos)

My new yard sign for the next six months or so. (David Svien photos)

Sherman

Signs. Signs. Everywhere a sign. The deer will continue to ignore them all.

It begins.

The long-anticipated Madrona Way Project is lurching to life, as my front yard officially became marked as a detour point late Monday afternoon.

The world HQ for Coupeville Sports sits on the corner of Sherman and Madrona, which will now be the turn a trillion people make over the next six months or so.

When construction work, in all its many forms, kicks into gear in the next couple of days, cars coming towards Coupeville on Madrona will be kicked to the right and shot up Sherman, then dropped on to Black and run down to Broadway.

Come from town, and you’ll do the route in reverse — shot down Broadway, up Black, then a screaming drop to the water on Sherman before you can get back on Madrona.

Madrona itself will be shut down to through traffic from Broadway to Vine, with Vine a no-man’s land.

The project is a two million dollar affair and involves several phases.

So, it’ll probably still be going in 2016…

New water and sewer mains are being installed, and then you get road reconstruction. Adding a storm drain system, bioswales and a pedestrian path are also planned.

I welcome my new construction overlords.

Cause it’s not like I have a choice, do I?

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