Drivers around Fife may finally be getting a taste of the long-promised SR 167 Expressway, as WSDOT says it is getting closer to opening the first two miles of the new corridor through the city. That initial stretch includes a diverging-diamond interchange designed to carry the tolled roadway over I-5, and project staff say they will be at Meeker Days in Puyallup to walk people through the staged opening and traffic changes. The short segment is the front end of a larger, roughly six-mile expressway intended to move freight faster to the Port of Tacoma while adding new trail and bridge connections for local trips.
The work is part of the SR 167 Completion Project, which will build about six miles of new tolled expressway between Puyallup and the Port of Tacoma and reconfigure several interchanges. WSDOT’s project page notes that pieces of the new roadway and its interchange will come online in stages, with the first sections scheduled to open in fall 2026, according to WSDOT.
Pierce Transit amplified the latest update on June 10, retweeting WSDOT’s post that crews are “getting closer to opening the first 2 miles” and that the SR 167 team will be at Meeker Days to talk with neighbors and commuters, per Pierce Transit. The Meeker Days appearance gives riders a chance to ask about ramp changes, new trail segments and how tolling will be phased in…