Development of Alternatives for Kitsap Way

Design Criteria

Working with City staff and the project Steering Committee, the design team developed street segment alternatives as cross-sections to understand the look and feel of the corridor. These alternatives include vehicle travel lanes, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, landscaped areas, and elements such as street lighting.

We used the following criteria in the alternatives development for Kitsap Way:

  • Safety: address existing and potential deficiencies.
  • Pedestrians and bicycles: provide low “level of stress” facilities for all ages and all abilities.
  • Traffic operations: support future volumes and operations.
  • Transit operations: accommodate corridor bus operations.
  • Vehicle access to properties: provide property access and parking.
  • Property impacts: minimize the number of property impacts and right of way required.

Preliminary Corridor Alternatives

Using community input from the first open house, the project team developed three alternatives that provide a range of improvements to the Kitsap Way corridor. The alternatives were developed to provide a range of options that best met the design criteria.

  • Alternative A includes improvements to the corridor at a lower cost.
  • Alternative B adds additional features with added cost.
  • Alternative C has more improvements but also higher costs.

Common Improvements to All Alternatives

In all three alternatives:

  • Kitsap Way becomes a three-lane roadway.
  • The roadway would have a single lane in each direction of travel and a center left turn lane or raised median (with roundabouts or U-turns).
  • Approaching the SR 3 interchange, Kitsap Way would remain with two lanes in each direction.

All alternatives share common features such as landscaping, decorative lighting, bus pullouts and storm drainage.

Did you know?

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) says that roadways up to 20,000 vehicles per day are good candidates for three-lane roadway conversion.

Approximately 11,000 vehicles per day travel on Kitsap Way.

Kitsap Way would become a narrower roadway with one travel lane in each direction and a center turn lane or median.

Kitsap Way cross-section with cars traveling in each lane. Northbound lane, southbound lane, and a turn lane or median in the middle.

This graphic shows the relationship between the existing roadway width and the proposed improvements. The proposed improvements for each alternative are planned to fit within the envelope of the existing paved area, eliminating the need for buying property and lowering the need for costly retaining walls.

For most of Kitsap Way, all proposed improvements would fit within the area of the existing roadway.

For most of Kitsap Way, all proposed improvements would fit within the area of the existing right of way (approximately 140 feet, and an existing paved with 75 feet). The total improvements width possible are 75 feet. The middle part of the road, in a burnt red, is 32- to-34 feet wide. The green strip, called the buffer, on each side of the burnt red, is 5 feet wide. The outer blue strip, called the pedestrian and bicycle lane, is 12- to-16 feet wide.

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Existing Right of Way: ~140'

Existing Paved Width: ~75'

 Roadway (32'–34')

 Buffer (5')

 Pedestrian​/​Bicycle (12'–16')

Total Improvement width: 75'