Washington State Route 532

File:SR 532 eastbound in Stanwood (23349028202).jpg

SR 532 begins at the intersection of Camano Drive and Sunrise Boulevard at the Y-shaped Terry's Corner on Camano Island. The highway passes the island's branch library and park-and-ride, traveling east across farmland on the north side of Livingston Bay. It then descends from the hilltop and crosses Davis Slough, a small stream that marks the boundary between Island and Snohomish counties. SR 532 continues across the wetland and crosses the main arm of the Stillaguamish River on the Camano Gateway Bridge at the west end of Stanwood.{{google maps |title=State Route 532 |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/48.2400213,-122.4551739/48.2387831,-122.2398163/@48.2525725,-122.4876534,47127m/am=t/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0 |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

The highway runs through Stanwood on the south side of the city, following the bank of the Stillaguamish River. Near the city's eastern downtown and Amtrak station, SR 532 crosses over a railroad and intersects the Pioneer Highway, which was formerly signed as SR 530. From downtown Stanwood, the road passes through the city's suburban hilltop neighborhoods, including a business district centered at 72nd Avenue Northwest. SR 532 curves southeasterly after leaving the city, but returns to a northeasterly path near Sunday Lake. The highway ends at an interchange with I-5 near another park-and-ride lot, while the road continues east to SR 9 at Bryant.

SR 532 is maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), which conducts an annual survey on the state's highways to measure traffic volume in terms of annual average daily traffic. In 2016, WSDOT calculated that 21,000 vehicles traveled on SR 532 in downtown Stanwood and 12,000 used it near the I-5 interchange, the highest and lowest traffic counts along the highway, respectively.{{cite web |year=2017 |title=2016 Annual Traffic Report |page=200 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/Annual_Traffic_Report_2016.pdf |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |access-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109083720/https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/Annual_Traffic_Report_2016.pdf |url-status=dead }}

File:MarkClarkBridge1.jpg on the Mark Clark Bridge, which served as the only road connection to Camano Island until 2010]]

Stanwood and Camano Island were originally connected by a horse-pulled cable ferry on the Stillaguamish River, which was replaced by a steel swing bridge that opened on August 7, 1909.{{cite news |last=Fiege |first=Gale |date=August 12, 2010 |title=Drivers, your bridge to Camano Island awaits |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/drivers-your-bridge-to-camano-island-awaits/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=July 22, 2018}}{{cite book |last=Essex |first=Alice |year=1971 |title=The Stanwood Story, Volume I |pages=51–56 |publisher=Stanwood Camano News |oclc=36113496 }} A lift bridge across the Davis Slough was completed in 1912.{{harvp|Essex|1971|p=70}}{{cite book |last1=Prasse |first1=Karen |author2=Stanwood Area Historical Society |year=2006 |title=Camano Island |pages=46–49 |series=Images of America |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=0-7385-3135-9 |oclc=71248462 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kde9KJ4PSEUC |via=Google Books |access-date=July 22, 2018}} The eastern approach through Stanwood and neighboring East Stanwood was paved with bricks in 1913, replacing a wagon road built in 1887 to Bryant.{{cite book |last=Prasse |first=Karen |year=2003 |title=River, Rail and Road: A Pictorial History of Stanwood & East Stanwood, Washington |pages=25–29 |publisher=Stanwood Area Historical Society |oclc=53827819}}{{cite map |title=Mount Vernon (1911) |url=http://cdm16866.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/447 |year=1911 |publisher=United States Geological Survey |scale=1:125,000 |series=Washington 1:125,000 topographic quadrangles |via=Washington State University Libraries |access-date=June 14, 2009}} The rest of the road was paved by the Snohomish County government in 1916, completing a Stanwood–Arlington highway.{{cite book |last=Essex |first=Alice |year=1975 |title=The Stanwood Story, Volume II |page=13 |publisher=Stanwood Camano News |oclc=36113541 }}

The state government took over maintenance of the Stanwood–Camano highway in 1945, designating it as Secondary State Highway 1Y (SSH 1Y). SSH 1Y ran from Camano Island to East Stanwood, where it was briefly concurrent with SSH 1E, and continued to a junction with Primary State Highway 1 (PSH 1, also signed as U.S. Route 99).{{cite book |date=March 16, 1945 |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington, 1945 |chapter=Chapter 248: Highways and Bridges Within State Parks |page=729 |chapter-url=http://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/documents/sessionlaw/1945c248.pdf |publisher=Washington State Legislature |access-date=July 22, 2018}}{{cite map |year=1956 |title=Stanwood, Wash. |scale=1:24,000 |publisher=United States Geological Survey}} At the request of the three communities, the state government allocated $615,000 in funds (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|615000|1948}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}} dollars){{inflation-fn|US-GDP}} to construct a new bridge over both the Stillaguamish River and Davis Slough.{{cite book |last=Essex |first=Alice |year=1998 |title=The Stanwood Story, Volume III |pages=30–31 |publisher=Stanwood Camano News |oclc=40399950 }} The new concrete bridge over the Stillaguamish River was opened on July 23, 1950, and named for World War II general Mark Wayne Clark, who resided seasonally on Camano Island. Further lobbying from Stanwood resulted in a $395,500 budget allotment (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|395500|1960}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}} dollars){{inflation-fn|US-GDP}} to relocate most of SSH 1Y onto a more southerly highway that would bypass East Stanwood and include modern shoulders and gentler grades.{{harvp|Essex|1998|pp=46–47}} The first phase, centered around a railroad overpass south of East Stanwood, was completed as scheduled in November 1962, despite part of the overpass collapsing midway through construction.{{harvp|Essex|1971|p=46}} The remaining highway between East Stanwood and US 99 (later rebuilt as I-5) was completed in October 1969, serving a temporary partial cloverleaf interchange until I-5 was expanded in 1972.{{cite news |last=Barr |first=Robert A. |date=July 16, 1972 |title=Rain stalls I-5 reconstruction project |page=H7 |work=The Seattle Times}}

During the 1964 highway renumbering, SSH 1Y was replaced by SR 532 and SSH 1E became SR 530.{{cite web |title=Identification of State Highways |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2005/04/26/Identification-of-state-highways.pdf |author=C. G. Prahl |publisher=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |date=December 1, 1965 |access-date=June 14, 2009 |archive-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217112902/https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/6836215D-E301-43F3-895A-472BD2FDE86A/0/Identification.pdf |url-status=dead }} In the 1990s, population growth in Stanwood led to a 70 percent increase in traffic along some sections of SR 532.{{cite news |last=Sheets |first=Bill |date=January 31, 2009 |title=Highway 532 fixes will help Stanwood, Camano Island residents get around |url=http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090131/NEWS01/701319919 |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=June 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205161922/http://heraldnet.com/article/20090131/NEWS01/701319919 |archive-date=February 5, 2009}} WSDOT conducted several corridor and traffic studies for the highway in the early 2000s, recommending that SR 532 be expanded to five lanes by 2022 to handle expected traffic growth.{{cite news |last=Kelly |first=Brain |date=October 15, 2001 |title=5 lanes advised for Stanwood road |url=http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20011015/NEWS01/110150704 |work=The Everett Herald |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224060417/http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20011015/NEWS01/110150704 |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |access-date=July 22, 2018}} The Nickel gas tax program approved by the state legislature in 2005 included $84 million to fund a series of expansion and replacement projects along SR 532.{{cite news |last=Nohara |first=Yoshiaki |date=March 29, 2008 |title=Highway project crucial to Stanwood |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/highway-project-crucial-to-stanwood/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

The corridor improvement program included a replacement for the Mark Clark Bridge, pavement repairs on the railroad overpass, and the addition of several truck climbing lanes, left-turn lanes, and sidewalks in downtown Stanwood.{{cite web |title=SR 532 - Corridor Improvements |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr532/ |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318095424/http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr532/ |archive-date=March 18, 2011 |access-date=July 22, 2018}} Construction began in 2009 and a majority of the projects were completed by the following year.{{cite news |last=Fiege |first=Gale |date=August 13, 2009 |title=Expect delays through Stanwood during Highway 532 bridge work |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/expect-delays-through-stanwood-during-highway-532-bridge-work/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=July 22, 2018}}{{cite news |last=Fiege |first=Gale |date=December 17, 2010 |title=Bridge work an early gift in Stanwood |work=The Everett Herald}} The Camano Gateway Bridge was opened to traffic on August 13, 2010, replacing the Mark Clark Bridge.{{cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Jeremiah |date=August 17, 2010 |title=Camano Gateway Bridge opens to traffic |url=http://www.scnews.com/news/2010-08-17/Front_Page/Camano_Gateway_Bridge_opens_to_traffic.html |work=Stanwood Camano News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903105718/http://www.scnews.com/news/2010-08-17/Front_Page/Camano_Gateway_Bridge_opens_to_traffic.html |archive-date=September 3, 2012 |access-date=July 22, 2018}} The new bridge has {{convert|14|ft|m|adj=mid}} shoulders for bicyclists and pedestrians and meets modern earthquake standards. A replacement for the Davis Slough Bridge began construction in August 2014 and was completed in May 2016, costing $29.3 million and funded with state gas taxes.{{cite news |last=Bray |first=Kari |date=October 7, 2014 |title=Second Camano bridge makeover begins |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/second-camano-bridge-makeover-begins/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=July 22, 2018}} The new bridge includes widened shoulders and was raised {{convert|5|ft|m}} higher to reduce disruptions during floods and high tide.{{cite news |date=May 5, 2016 |title=Davis Slough Bridge 'open' |url=https://www.goskagit.com/scnews/news/davis-slough-bridge-open/article_803e10bf-f32a-5fe8-afef-88d3e0b6a2fb.html |work=Stanwood Camano News |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

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