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| | Getting There: Using Route 599 wouldn't help 509 |
 | | If the 509 extension is built, the state estimates, afternoon 509 traffic near 188th would more than double, from just under 3,200 vehicles per peak hour to more than 8,000 in 20 years. |
 | | Susan Everett, manager of the Highway 509 extension project for the state Department of Transportation, agrees that 599 has relatively light traffic and said she uses it herself as a bypass. |
 | | Without extending 509 as an I-5 bypass, the state predicts that I-5 traffic at Southcenter will reach capacity within 20 years at South 188th Street, with peak afternoon traffic crawling along at the rate of 18,690 vehicles per hour. |
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