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Kittitas County Transportation Element 2018 <br />Freight Network <br />Freight and goods movement is a vital and often <br />underappreciated component of the transportation <br />network. Everyone is directly impacted by how <br />goods are delivered to ports, distribution centers, <br />stores and homes. Freight movement is essential in <br />Kittitas County in order to bring goods to citizens as <br />well as to export products such as the world famous <br />Timothy Hay grown in Kittitas County. <br />As discussed earlier in this chapter, Kittitas County is <br />home to a number of key freight-generating and <br />time-sensitive industries, including agriculture and <br />forestry. Providing a transportation system that <br />accommodates these key economic generators and <br />the timely movement of goods is important to <br />Kittitas County. <br />WSDOT has identified the state's major truck <br />corridors (Figure 13). They rank the corridors by the <br />amount of goods that they carry each year, <br />measured in gross tons annually. Table 2 below <br />shows the thresholds applied to determine each <br />roadway's classification. <br />T bl 2 WSDOT Frei ht Road Classifications I <br />Road Classifications Goods Moved <br />T-1 Over 10 million gross <br />tons annually <br />T-2 4 to 10 million gross <br />tons annually <br />T-3 300,000 to 4 million <br />gross tons annually <br />T-4 100,000 to 300,000 <br />gross tons annually <br />T-5 Over 20,000 gross tons <br />in 60 days <br />Source: WSDOT, 2015 <br />The heavily traveled T-1 corridors in Kittitas County <br />are 1-90 and 1-82. SR 97, SR 970, Vantage Highway, W <br />Dolarway Road/Railroad Avenue, parts of <br />Umptanum Road, Canyon Road, Water Street, and <br />Mountain View Avenue in Ellensburg are T-2 <br />corridors. SR 903 through Roslyn and down to Cle <br />Elum is a T-3 corridor as is SR 821 south of Ellensburg <br />and multiple arterials surrounding Ellensburg and <br />11 2014 Washington State Freight Mobility Plan <br />Kittitas. SR 10 is a T-4 corridor stretching from Cle <br />Elum to Ellensburg. <br />The region is also bisected by a major railroad <br />corridor carrying over 5 million tons of goods each <br />year 11 • These freight modes are major economic <br />drivers in the region, both as customers to the <br />businesses along the routes and as providers of <br />goods movement for producers and growers in the <br />County. <br />Freight trucks are important for economic success <br />but also bring transportation and safety challenges. <br />28 IP age