As Sultan grows, city backs a 4-lane highway with roundabouts

U.S. 2 travelers could be side-by-side across four lanes through Sultan within two decades, according to a city-funded long-range report about the highway.

Earlier this year, community, regional and technical groups along with the Sultan City Council agreed to pursue a four-lane highway as the preferred option. The report proposes to replace existing traffic signals with roundabouts, add a roundabout at Main Street and build new four-lane bridges with room for bicycles and sidewalks for an estimated $177 million.

“There’s a lot of steps before we accomplish this,” Mayor Russell Wiita said during the City Council meeting Jan. 26.

Most of the money for it remains to be secured, but already some pieces are in early design stages.

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