Before COVID, we heard a lot of feedback from our downtown businesses about the public parking lots. Two lots had 8-hour maximum times, which became problematic as commuters would fill them before downtown employees or customers even arrived, a situation that was hard to enforce with such a long time Read more…
Whenever the Northwest gets snow, it brings up some questions. Here are the usual ones: What roads do you plow first? First Priority: Forest Canyon Road, Sumner-Tapps Highway, Traffic Avenue and 24th Street interchange with SR 167 Second Priority: all bridges including 142nd Avenue E and Cannery Way Third Priority: Read more…
From Mayor Bill Pugh: Something momentous happened last week for Sumner. Did you notice? Likely not, unless you watch Pierce County meetings. Pierce County approved their portion of funding ($4.26 million) to replace the Stewart Road Bridge. It’s such a simple sentence that carries a 20+ year history. You see, Read more…
Union Pacific assessed the bump left from their work on the crossing of Sumner Heights Drive. They made some temporary patches, but the job requires further work. They are scheduling paving and asphalt to complete the job. So far, all we know is it should occur in the next week Read more…
The full length of the Sumner Link Trail is closed the full week of February 10 from Traffic Avenue to Stewart Road (8th Street). We still have standing water in places from last week’s flooding, and we have a lot of work to drain and clean the trails before we Read more…
A lot of people want to park in Sumner. With an active downtown, businesses need parking for employees and customers. Residents need parking to access their homes, have guests over or get work done on their property during the day. And with a regional transit station, commuters need parking to access Read more…
We have a water main leaking under Main Street where it crosses the railroad tracks. In order to make repairs, we will be shutting down Main Street in evenings starting January 13. We expect this project to last about two weeks. Each morning, the road will reopen by about 5 Read more…
Fund 166th/SR410 Interchange Design We’ve done it once, and we need to do it again. With Traffic Avenue, Sumner demonstrated how smart cities can use State investments to build public-private partnerships funding WSDOT interchanges improvements for a fraction of what it would cost the State to fully fund in the Read more…
On October 9, we celebrated the Cannery Way Bridge with a small ceremony for our funding partners. There are still more details coming–like the pedestal lanterns–but on the whole, the bridge is completed. Because the former Bridge Street bridge was dedicated in 1927, we used a similar vintage Model A Read more…
It’s an interchange that serves many from Sumner and Puyallup, so the groundbreaking to add two new lanes plus pedestrian crossings is a big deal to the South Sound region. Thank you to all our partners and participants. To learn more about the project and get updates, click here.