Written by While most Rentonites are very familiar with the configuration of the Renton end of the Renton-Issaquah road (highway 900), the east end in issaquah has been confounded by constuction delays, overuse, and restriction to single lane each way through many highly congested segments.
In some ways, these restrictions have helped Renton residents by resticting the total volume on this highway…but for those residents trying to commute on this road toward Issaquah, the growing traffic has been agrivating.
Many years ago I use to commute from Issaquah to my Boeing job in Renton, before I smartly moved my residence to our city. More recently, I’ve actually commuted from my Renton home to a Boeing facility in Issaquah, an ironic reverse of my commute two decades earlier. In both directions, the traffic on the Issaquah end makes our issues in Renton not seem as unsolvable, as they are constrained by even tougher topography and wetland issues than we see here in Renton.
Recently, there was an article about the end of the Issaquah bypass that has been discussed for 12 years to alleviate some of the backups.
I don’t have feelings either way about the death of the bypass, but I am sympathetic to Issaquah officials trying to resolve their worsening traffic problems.
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