Less than 500 people live in the small Kitsap County town of Gorst, but thousands of commuters come through the community every day. What are the Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) plans to fix the problem?
Gorst sits between Port Orchard and Bremerton. It’s at the base of the Sinclair Inlet where State Route 16 (SR 16) and State Route 3 (SR 3) meet. Those highways were not designed to handle the amount of vehicles that come through there every day.
“This interchange where SR 3 and SR 16 meet is the nexus of a lot of different highways,” WSDOT’s Mark Kurlish said. “If you are going south to north through Kitsap County and through the Kitsap Peninsula, you will at some point go through this curve.”…