Washington State Route 303

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State Route 303 (SR 303), named Warren Avenue, begins at an intersection with Burwell Street, signed as {{nowrap|SR 304}}, north of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. Warren Avenue travels north through Bremerton and serves Olympic College before crossing the Port Washington Narrows on the Warren Avenue Bridge. The highway intersects Clare Avenue and Callahan Drive in a partial cloverleaf and diamond interchange.{{cite web |date=March 31, 2011 |title=SR 303: Junction Callahan Drive |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR303/303x001.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}} In East Bremerton, the roadway becomes Wheaton Way and continues north through suburban areas and intersects Sheridan Road, a spur route of SR 303 prior to 1991.{{cite map |publisher=City of Bremerton |format=PDF |title=Zoning Map 1 |date=November 30, 2005 |url=http://www.ci.bremerton.wa.us/forms/communitydev/zoning/Map1_3_2010.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}} SR 303 passes View Ridge Elementary and Sylvan Way, the former SR 306 serving Illahee State Park, before leaving Bremerton. The highway turns west at an intersection with its former route, the Brownsville Highway, and becomes a grade-separated freeway named Waaga Way. The freeway intersects Central Valley Road in a partial cloverleaf interchange and turns northwest to intersect Ridgetop Boulevard in a diamond interchange.{{cite web |date=September 2, 1992 |title=SR 303: Junction Central Valley Road |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR303/303x006.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{cite web |date=March 31, 2011 |title=SR 303: Junction Ridgetop Blvd. |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR303/303x007.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}} Waaga Way travels around the Kitsap Mall and interchanges with Silverdale Way before intersecting {{nowrap|SR 3}} in Silverdale, continuing as Kitsap Mall Boulevard into the city center.{{cite web |date=May 5, 2009 |title=SR 303: Junction Silverdale Way |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR303/303x008.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{cite web |date=June 1, 2010 |title=SR 3: Junction SR 303/Kitsap Mall Blvd. |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tools/InterchangeViewer/pdf/SR003/003X045.pdf |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{google maps |title=State Route 303 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Warren+Ave&daddr=47.5974737,-122.6293902+to:Unknown+road&hl=en&ll=47.614855,-122.66088&spn=0.12567,0.338173&sll=47.6615,-122.687395&sspn=0.007847,0.021136&geocode=FejI1QIdMsWw-A%3BFaFH1gId8tKw-CnFQGoz8DmQVDFAblrwbtXa3A%3BFTo-1wIdktqv-A&t=m&mra=me&mrsp=1,0&sz=16&z=12&via=1 |accessdate=January 9, 2013}} The entire highway is part of the National Highway System and was used by a daily average of 42,000 vehicles in 2011.{{cite map |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |title=National Highway System: Bremerton, WA |date=October 1, 2012 |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/nhs_maps/washington/bremerton_wa.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{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=169 |access-date=January 9, 2013}}

The original route of SR 303, connecting Bremerton to Brownsville and Keyport first appeared on maps in 1933 as a gravel road.{{cite map |publisher=Department of Highways |title=State of Washington Highway Map |date=April 1, 1933 |url=http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/maps_detail.aspx?m=70 |format=DJVU |access-date=January 9, 2013}} In 1937, the roadway was added to the state highway system as Secondary State Highway 21B (SSH 21B), traveling from {{nowrap|Primary State Highway 21}} (PSH 21) in Bremerton to PSH 21 at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1937 |date=March 18, 1937 |access-date=January 9, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcQ4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 207: Classification of Public Highways |page=1011}}{{cite map |publisher=Department of Highways |title=State of Washington Highway Map |year=1950 |cartography=Rand McNally |url=http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/maps_detail.aspx?m=29 |format=DJVU |access-date=January 9, 2013}} A toll bridge across the Port Washington Narrows carrying Warren Avenue and SSH 21B was completed by the state government in November 1958.{{cite news |date=February 1959 |title=New Toll Bridge Opened At Warren Avenue In Bremerton |page=16 |work=Washington Highway News |publisher=Washington State Department of Highways |volume=8 |issue=4 |oclc=29654162 |url=https://cdm16977.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16977coll1/id/3390/rec/5 |via=Washington State Department of Transportation Library Digital Collections |access-date=August 29, 2018}}

A branch of SSH 21B that served Illahee State Park was added in 1961,{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1961 |access-date=January 9, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wso4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 47.20: Secondary Highway Routes—Miscellaneous Projects |date=1961 |page=539}}{{cite map |publisher=United States Geological Survey |title=Seattle, 1958 |year=1958 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-seattle-1958.jpg |format=JPG |scale=1:125,000 |access-date=January 9, 2013}} and became {{nowrap|State Route 306}} (SR 306) during the 1964 highway renumbering.{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.565 |title=47.17.565: State route No. 306 |year=1970 |work=Revised Code of Washington |publisher=Washington State Legislature |access-date=January 9, 2013}} SSH 21B became SR 303 in the same renumbering, however the segment from Keyport to Bangor (including a short spur) became {{nowrap|SR 308}} in 1971.{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.567 |title=47.17.567: State route No. 308 |year=1971 |work=Revised Code of Washington |publisher=Washington State Legislature |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{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 |access-date=January 9, 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 |format=JPG |scale=1:125,000 |access-date=January 9, 2013}} A spur route of SR 303, serving the Manette Bridge, was also added to the highway system, but was removed in 1991.{{cite book |author=Washington House of Representatives |author-link=Washington House of Representatives |title=Chapter 342, Laws of 1991: State Highway Routes — Revisions To (House Bill 5801)" |edition=1991 |series=Session Laws of the State of Washington |year=1991 |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington}} SR 303 was re-routed in 1991 onto the new Waaga Way grade-separated freeway bypass of Silverdale that was built in the late 1970s.{{cite news |last=Friedrich |first=Ed |date=December 29, 2012 |title=35 years ago, Trident subs changed face of Kitsap |work=Kitsap Sun |url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/dec/29/35-years-ago-trident-subs-changed-face-of-kitsap/ |access-date=January 9, 2013}} No major revisions to SR 303 have been made since 1991,{{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 |access-date=January 9, 2013}} however the Manette Bridge is still maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation and was rebuilt in November 2011.{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.960 |title=47.17.960: Local bridges — Department responsibility. |year=1991 |work=Revised Code of Washington |publisher=Washington State Legislature |access-date=January 9, 2013}}{{cite news |last=Friedrich |first=Ed |date=November 10, 2011 |title=New Manette Bridge connects past, future |work=Kitsap Sun |url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/nov/10/new-manette-bridge-opens-to-traffic/ |access-date=January 9, 2013}} The Wheaton Way section of SR 303 in Bremerton was remodeled in 2012, resulting in traffic on the Warren Avenue Bridge.{{cite news |last=Farley |first=Josh |date=December 4, 2012 |title=Motorists feel the pain as work on Warren proceeds |work=Kitsap Sun |url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/dec/04/work-on-warren-intersections-gives-bremerton/ |access-date=January 9, 2013}}

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