Check out today's News Tribune for the latest efforts to develop a plan for ensuring a full connection between Puyallup and Tacoma and eventual completion of State Route 167. As Jordan Schrader writes, "The plan wouldn’t give Pierce County backers of Route 167 everything they want, but some are starting to come around to the idea that a scaled-back approach could do enough to reduce I-5 congestion and hasten the flow of imports and exports between the Port of Tacoma and warehouses in the Kent Valley and beyond."

He goes onto to note that Gov. Jay Inslee has thrown his support behind the concept of combining the two unfinished roads, 509 and 167, into the so-called gateway. He plans to travel Friday to a warehouse in Tacoma to call for a transportation tax increase that includes the gateway and other “priorities” he plans to announce.

KING 5 also picked up on this, reporting that "SR-167 Completion project could be funded by tolls, gas tax."