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TUKWILA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Transportation Corridors <br />TRANSPORTATION <br />CORRIDORS <br />PURPOSE <br />Both local and state travel routes through the City provide strategic <br />regional connections. Two routes — East Marginal Way South and the <br />West Valley Highway — are discussed in the Manufacturing/ Industrial <br />Center element and the Tukwila Urban Center element. Three routes — <br />Tukwila International Boulevard (99), Interurban Avenue, and <br />Southcenter Boulevard — will be discussed in this element. These <br />corridors are important to the region and the City for a number of reasons. <br />(Figure 14) <br />• First, they serve the surrounding residential and employment <br />community with products and services. Community members <br />spend a significant amount of time in these corridors and it is <br />here that they are most likely to meet other members of their <br />community. <br />• Second, these areas offer the best travel routes in the City for <br />both residents and businesses because of transit service and <br />arterial and freeway automobile access. <br />• Third, they are regional throughways- -that are also the front <br />door to Tukwila's residential neighborhoods. They create an <br />impression and are a reflection of the community to the rest of <br />the region. <br />ISSUES <br />For the City's transportation corridors there are similar city -wide con- <br />cerns: <br />• how to maintain or create distinctions of character along linear <br />corridors in order to have visual interest <br />• how to have quality environments with the high travel demands <br />placed upon them <br />• the cost of upgrading the corridors with sidewalks, storm drains, <br />trees, street lights and other amenities <br />Figure 14 <br />Transportation <br />Corridors <br />December 2008 1 <br />