Washington State Route 164

SR 164 begins as Auburn Way at a partial cloverleaf interchange with the SR 18 freeway south of the Auburn Shopping Center in Downtown Auburn.{{cite web |date=March 2, 2001 |title=SR 18: Junction SR 164/Auburn Way |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR018/018X004.pdf |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} The highway travels southeast and passes Les Grove Park and White River Valley Museum before leaving Auburn, following the White River upstream into the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, passing the Muckleshoot Casino. Auburn Way travels east and southeast within the reservation, passing Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center, the Auburn Adventist Academy and Muckleshoot Tribal School. SR 164 leaves the reservation and enters rural King County, continuing to follow the White River as the Auburn–Enumclaw Road and passing the White River Amphitheatre, turning east as it approaches Enumclaw. The highway, now named 436th Street, passes Mahler Park and dips south onto Griffin Avenue into Downtown Enumclaw. Griffin Avenue turns southeast and intersects Porter Street, the southern terminus of SR 169, before traveling to an intersection with Roosevelt Avenue, signed as SR 410, where SR 164 ends.{{google maps |title=State Route 164 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Auburn+Way+S&daddr=Griffin+Ave&hl=en&ll=47.25137,-122.10351&spn=0.132135,0.338173&sll=47.199542,-121.981276&sspn=0.001033,0.002642&geocode=FaDK0QId_fu2-A%3BFbA00AIdW7a6-A&mra=dme&mrsp=1&sz=19&t=m&z=12 |accessdate=November 24, 2010}}

Every year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume. This is expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2011, WSDOT calculated that between 9,200 and 34,000 vehicles per day used the highway, mostly in the Auburn area.{{cite web |author=Staff |year=2011 |title=2011 Annual Traffic Report |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/Annual_Traffic_Report_2011.pdf |page=148 |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} WSDOT has designated SR 164 as a Highway of Statewide Significance, which includes principal arterials that are needed to connect major communities in the state.{{cite web |title=Transportation Commission List of Highways of Statewide Significance |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2006/03/16/HSSlist2009mod2.pdf |publisher=Washington State Transportation Commission |date=July 26, 2009 |accessdate=January 28, 2013}}{{cite map |title=Highways Of Statewide Significance |year=2009 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/15032FA5-C443-4F42-91D6-7B77799F11D1/0/HSSstatewide2009.pdf |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |accessdate=January 28, 2013}}

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SR 164 was first defined under law to be built and paved by the state of Washington in 1913 as the McClellan Pass Highway, extending southeast from Tacoma along the Puyallup and White rivers to Chinook Pass and towards Naches along an existing county road from Auburn and Enumclaw built in the 1890s.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1913 |date=March 12, 1913 |accessdate=January 28, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7w4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 65: Classifying Public Highways |page=222}}{{cite map |publisher=Bureau of Statistics and Immigration of the State of Washington |title=State of Washington Showing State Highways Authorized by Legislative Acts of 1915 |year=1915 |url=http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/maps_detail.aspx?m=27 |format=DJVU |accessdate=January 28, 2013}}{{cite map |publisher=United States Geological Survey |title=Washington: Tacoma Quadrangle |date=March 1900 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/washington/txu-pclmaps-topo-wa-tacoma-1895.jpg |scale=1:125,000 |format=JPG |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} The highway was renamed to the Naches Pass Highway in 1921 and became State Road 5 during a 1923 restructuring of the state highway system.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1921 |date=March 2, 1921 |accessdate=January 28, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fb44AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 34: McClellan Pass |page=118}}{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1923 |date=March 19, 1923 |accessdate=January 28, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G784AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 185: Primary and Secondary State Highways |pages=628–629}} After the formation of the United States Numbered Highways in 1926, US 410 was created and used the route of State Road 5 between Tacoma and Naches.{{cite map |author1= Bureau of Public Roads |author2= American Association of State Highway Officials |date= November 11, 1926 |title= United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url= https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale= 1:7,000,000 |location= Washington, DC |publisher= United States Geological Survey |oclc= 32889555 |access-date= November 7, 2013 |via= Wikimedia Commons |name-list-style= amp}}{{cite map |publisher=Washington State Highway Commission |title=Highway Map: State of Washington |date=January 1931 |url=http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/maps_detail.aspx?m=34 |format=DJVU |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} State Road 5 became PSH 5, extended north to Renton and named the National Park Highway, was established during the creation of the Primary and secondary state highways in 1937.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1937 |date=March 17, 1937 |accessdate=January 28, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcQ4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 190: Establishment of Primary State Highways |pages=935–937}} US 410 was moved south to a new Sumner–Buckley highway in the 1950s and was replaced by an extension of US 12 in 1967.{{cite web |last=Weingroff |first=Richard |date=April 7, 2011 |title=U.S. 12: Michigan to Washington |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us12.cfm |access-date=January 28, 2013}}{{cite map |publisher=Rand McNally |title=Northwest, 1946 |year=1946 |url=http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Northwest/randmcnally_ra_1946_016.html |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} During the 1964 highway renumbering, PSH 5 was split into several highways, including SR 167 between Renton and Enumclaw, ending at SR 410.{{cite web |last=Prahl |first=C. G. |title=Identification of State Highways |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2005/04/26/Identification-of-state-highways.pdf |publisher=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |date=December 1, 1965 |accessdate=January 28, 2013}}{{cite map |publisher=United States Geological Survey |title=Seattle, 1965 |year=1965 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-seattle-1965.jpg |scale=1:250,000 |format=JPG |accessdate=January 28, 2013}} In 1969, SR 167 was moved onto former SR 163 between Sumner and Auburn and SR 164 was established.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1969 |year=1969 |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Extended Session 281}} SR 164 originally ended at SR 18 in Downtown Auburn, but was moved south when SR 18 was realigned onto a new freeway in 1987.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1987 |date=January 29, 1987 |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Senate Bill 5413}} No major revisions to the route of the highway have occurred since.{{cite map |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |title=Washington State Highways, 2011–2012 |year=2011 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/14A6187A-B266-4340-A351-D668F89AC231/0/TouristMapFront_withHillshade.pdf |format=PDF |scale=1:842,000 |accessdate=January 28, 2013}}

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