Washington State Route 522
State Route 522 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It connects the city of Seattle to the northeastern suburbs of Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, and Monroe. Its western half is primarily an arterial street that follows the northern shore of Lake Washington. The eastern half is a grade-separated freeway that runs between Wood inville and Monroe and connects several of the metropolitan area’s major highways.
About Washington State Route 522 in brief
State Route 522 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It connects the city of Seattle to the northeastern suburbs of Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, and Monroe. Its western half is primarily an arterial street that follows the northern shore of Lake Washington. The eastern half is a grade-separated freeway that runs between Wood inville and Monroe and connects several of the metropolitan area’s major highways. SR 522 was built in stages between 1907 and 1965, beginning with the Red Brick Road from Seattle to Bothell. Since the late 1990s, the highway has been partially converted to a freeway to address safety concerns and a growing population. Portions of the highway were widened between 2001 and 2014, while other sections near Maltby remain two lanes wide and undivided, with improvement projects left unfunded. The highway also has a direct east-ramp to US2, where it makes a 180-degree turn south to intersect with US2 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds and crosses over the BNSF Railway and over the US 2 border. It was designated as a state road in 1937, and was extended east to Redmond and North Bend in 1965. The present-day route was re-designated as part of the Bothell–Monroe highway in 1970, leaving SR 202 on theBothell–North Bend highway. It is also known as Lake City Way and Bothell Way within Seattle city limits. Beyond Seattle, it is named Bothell Ways and follows the north shore of the lake.
It also has an urban village in Lake Forest Park, with mixed-use development and apartment buildings that are centered around the intersection of Lake city Way and NE 145th Street. It ends at an interchange with I-5 in the Roosevelt neighborhood of northern Seattle, east of Green Lake. The freeway enters Snohomish County and intersects SR 9 south of the Brightwater sewage treatment plant. It continues through several sharp turns that follow the Eastside Rail Corridor, a former railroad grade that runs northeasterlyly through the predominantly rural area near Lake Grace. It becomes a two-lane freeway-grade intersection at Paradise Road in Maltby, and crosses into urban Lake Lake Road in a single-point urban area near Echo Lake Road. It crosses over US2 near the Evergreens State Fairground and over US 2 near Evergreen Fairgrounds in Monroe, where the highway terminates at a dogbone intersection. It then travels around the southern edge of the University of Washington Bothell campus and intersected I-405, becoming a grade separated freeway. In Monroe, it cuts across suburban housing areas in Monroe and crosses over the US2 border and over the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. It terminates at the intersection of US2 and SR 2 near the Evergreen Fairgrounds, where SR 2 has an offramp for eastbound traffic.
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