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