{"id":42684,"date":"2019-10-11T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/city-of-kent-to-host-open-house-about-willis-street-roundabout\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T23:12:45","slug":"city-of-kent-to-host-open-house-about-willis-street-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/city-of-kent-to-host-open-house-about-willis-street-roundabout\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kent to host open house about Willis Street roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can ask questions and find out more about the roundabout to be built at Fourth Avenue South and Willis Street (State Route 516) during a city of Kent open house from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7 in Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>The existing signalization intersection will be replaced with a roundabout. The project will include new sidewalks, crosswalks and landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>During the open house, city staff will display exhibits describing the project and will provide residents the opportunity to ask project-related questions and share comments. City of Kent and state Department of Transportation (DOT) staff will be available to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>The state DOT has approved a $3 million grant to the city to pay for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will construct a dual-lane roundabout at the intersection. Many drivers go north on Fourth Avenue to access downtown, including Kent Station and the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A roundabout makes an incredible amount of sense to help move traffic through this intersection,&rdquo; City Public Works Director Tim LaPorte said when project plans were announced last year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Thomas Leyrer, city engineer, at TLeyrer@KentWA.gov or 253-856-5562.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project plans to be discussed Nov. 7 at City Hall <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":42685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42684"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}