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Kittitas County December 2016 Comprehensive Plan <br />surprising that this project did not make the Financially Constrained Mobility list. However, <br />extension of the snow shed may occur. This project falls under another category of the Plan: <br />Economic Initiative Strategies. The cost estimate to extend and widen the shed is $20 - $26 <br />million. <br />About $960 million of the total $1.09 billion worth of Economic Initiative Strategy projects were <br />in the Financially Constrained Plan. This contrasts with the Mobility Strategies, where only about <br />$7 billion of the total $29 billion in improvements could receive funding. Therefore, before I-695 <br />there was a chance the snow shed project would go forward, but little hope for the widening of <br />1-90 along the lake. Expanding and widening the snow shed may reduce the number of Pass <br />closures. This action, combined with improvements in communication between residents and <br />WSP, may reduce Pass access problems during the winter. <br />WSDOT should be encouraged to develop a project that becomes part of the State Highway <br />System Plan, probably under the Safety Improvements or Economic Initiative category. This <br />project would provide formal status for resolving the access issue not just for residents, but also <br />for those wishing to access the ski area or cross over the Pass. <br />The only certain thing regarding highway funding is its continued uncertainty. Watch pending <br />referendums and initiatives in this and coming years to keep current on the status of highway <br />funding in the State of Washington. <br />6.1.4 Goals and Objectives <br />Goal: Provide for transportation methods which are safe and serve the residential, recreation, <br />cultural, economic and emergency needs of the area while reducing internal automobile travel and <br />encouraging pedestrian, bicycle and ski circulation within the community. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Adequate circulation for residents should be provided, even during times of heavy visitor <br />traffic. <br />2. All transportation corridors, from walkways to roadways should take into account the safety <br />aspects of falling and accumulating snow. <br />3. Parking along SR 906 should be controlled and coordinated to increase pedestrian safety. <br />Additional off-street parking alternatives should be identified and implemented. <br />4. The availability of remote or new parking areas should be analyzed, including: <br />a. Shuttle from Bandera; <br />b. Denny Creek campground; and, <br />c. Asahel Curtis picnic area with chairlift/gondola to area of Surveyors lake/ radio tower, <br />connecting to top of Silver Fir. <br />d. Additional ski area parking lots.