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State Route 525, commonly abbreviated as '''SR 525''', is a State Highway in the U.S. State of Washington . It extends almost 31 miles from Lynnwood in the east to an area near Keystone in the west, not counting a portion that is carried by the Washington State Ferries run from Mukilteo on the mainland to Clinton on Whidbey Island . On Whidbey Island, it is known as The Highway. In Mukilteo, it is known as '''Mukilteo Speedway''', ROUTE DESCRIPTION SR-525 begins as a freeway, incorporating lanes extending from the northern terminus of Interstate 405 and ramps from its junction with Interstate 5 near Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood . From there it travels due north toward a newly completed overpass over and interchange with State Route 99 . From there, 525 becomes a boulevard, the Mukilteo Speedway, and travels through the commercial and industrial areas of south Mukilteo , past Paine Field . At the end of the Boulevard section, 525 splits. The main route heads to Whidbey Island via Ferry , and a spur, also known as Paine Field Boulevard, links 525 to State Route 526 , bypassing many signals and other roads while also shortening the route for people traveling to Everett and Boeing 's Paine Field Plant. As SR-525 heads northwest from the split, it shrinks to a two-lane city street until it reaches the western terminus of 526. There, a central left-turn lane is added. As 525 makes its way down the embankments of Mukilteo toward the ferry terminal, it loses its turn lane and gains a ferry holding lane. (Travel in the holding lane is not permitted unless a backup has formed.) At Goat Hill Road, the ferry holding lane becomes a lane for ferry traffic only. (All vehicles bound for the ferry must use the lane, and one may not enter the lane from that point on.) Traffic for Whidbey Island is funneled into a holding area, while local traffic may continue to the waterfront. (Both the holding area and the local street carry the designation of SR-525.) On the Whidbey Island side, 525 climbs a gigantic hill, which sometimes causes new drivers of Manual Transmission vehicles to stall. Once the grade levels, the now four-lane highway plus central turn lane runs through Clinton . Just north of Clinton, the highway narrows again to two lanes and becomes a rural highway. It travels westward through the communities of Bayview and Freeland before turning north. It then passes through Greenbank and ends at its junction with State Route 20 in Keystone, just west of which is the ferry dock for Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula . HISTORY
RELATED ROUTES There is one bannered route of SR 525, called State Route 525 Spur , commissioned in 2001. There are several ideas of creating another child route of SR-525 to serve the city of Langley using existing roads. Commonly the proposed designation of this route is Business 525. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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