Interstate 182 / U.S. 12 East

What was the first shield posted for Interstate 182 as the freeway travels between Candy and Badger Mountains from Goose Gap. The replacement assembly acknowledges U.S. 12.

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Eastbound distance sign posted three miles west of SR 240 and five miles from the Richland city center.

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Exit 3 with Queensgate Drive is the first of three exits along I-182/U.S. 12 in the city of Richland. Richland was home to 60,568 as of the 2020 census and incorporated on April 28, 1910.

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Queensgate Drive connects I-182/U.S. 12 with Keene Road. Keene Road leads northwest into the city of West Richland.

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A former nuclear production facility, the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Site expands along 586 square miles of land adjacent to SR 240 in northern Benton County.

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Keene Road passes over I-182/U.S. 12 adjacent to the Keene Road Trail, a former Union Pacific railroad line. The freeway previously entered the city of Richland at this point, but now the municipal boundaries extend westward to near Dallas Road and Badger Mountain.

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Queensgate Drive arcs northward from Keene Road to a parclo interchange (Exit 3) with I-182. Duportail Street connects the arterial with Keene Road to the north in a retail area.

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SR 240 meets I-182/U.S. 12 at Exit 4. SR 240 follows Bypass Highway, a controlled access arterial around central Richland, southward from Jadwin Avenue to a short overlap with the freeway.

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I-182/U.S. 12 span the Yakima River ahead of the Government Railroad overpass and trumpet interchange (Exit 4) with Bypass Highway north.

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Exit 4 loops onto SR 240 (Bypass Highway) westbound ahead of Aaron Drive east to Wellsian Way north. SR 240 joins Richland with the Hanford area and SR 24 near the Vernita Bridge over the Columbia River. SR 24 east to SR 243 north leads to Interstate 90 near Vantage.

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SR 240 combines with I-182/U.S. 12 east 1.18 miles to Exit 5 A. The state route departs in a half mile for a freeway leading east to Kennewick and U.S. 395 by the Blue Bridge.

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Completed on June 7, 2007, the SR 240 expansion project added lanes between Richland and Kennewick. Work also included building a new Yakima River Bridge that opened in 2005 and the redesign of the Richland Wye interchange.
SR 240 follows the former route of U.S. 12 southeast to U.S. 395 near the Kennewick city center.

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The directional cloverleaf interchange at Exit 5 B connects I-182/U.S. 12 east with George Washington Way north to the Richland city center.

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George Washington Way leads north from Exit 5 B to the Richland city center. The arterial route serves interests to the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology (CREHST) Museum and the WSU Tri Cities Campus in north Richland.

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I-182/U.S. 12 span Lake Wallula of the Columbia River by Columbia Point and enter Franklin County. The first of the twin spans across the river was dedicated on November 27, 1984.

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The first of five Pasco city exits is a parclo interchange (Exit 7) with Broadmoor Boulevard in the western reaches of the city.

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Broadmoor Boulevard south becomes Road 100 beyond Welsh Drive and continues to the Montgomery Estates subdivision and W Court Street by the Columbia River.

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Prior to 2012, Broadmoor Boulevard extended a short distance north of Sandifur Parkway adjacent to a pair of subdivisions. Supporting suburban development, Broadmoor Boulevard was lengthened 1.1 miles to Road 116 at Easy Street.

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I-182/U.S. 12 bend southeastward and next meet Road 68 at a six-ramp parclo interchange (Exit 9).

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The Trade, Recreation and Agricultural Center (TRAC) lies northeast of Exit 9 and Road 68 along Burden Boulevard. Adjacent to the entertainment complex is Gesa Stadium, home of the Tri-City Dust Devils minor league baseball team, opened in 1995.¹

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Road 68 leaves the city northward to become Taylor Flats Road and heads south from Exit 9 into the unincorporated Riverview community.

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A trumpet interchange (Exit 12 A) joins I-182/U.S. 12 with the freeway leading U.S. 395 south to the Blue Bridge and Kennewick. The parclo interchange at Exit 12 B follows with 20th Avenue.

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Speed limits lower to 60 mph along I-182/U.S. 12 ahead of Exit 12 A. U.S. 395 meets W Court Street at an exchange just south of I-182/U.S. 12.

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A collector distributor roadway (Exit 20 B) joins I-182/U.S. 12 eastbound with U.S. 395 south and 20th Avenue). 20th Avenue leads north from the Pasco street grid to Columbia Basin College and the passenger terminal at Tri-Cities Airport (PSC).

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U.S. 395 follows a freeway from Interstate 182 across the Blue Bridge to SR 240 and Columbia Drive west of Downtown Kennewick. U.S. 395 continues through southwest Kennewick onto I-82 east for Umatilla and Hermiston, Oregon.

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Overall U.S. 395 travels 1,305 miles from the Canadian border at Laurier to Hesperia, California. U.S. 395 travels south from the Tri-Cities to Pendleton, Oregon, Reno and Carson City in Nevada, and Bishop, California.

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U.S. 395 northbound joins the c/d roadway along I-182/U.S. 12 east ahead of Exit 12 B for 20th Avenue.

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Interstate 182, U.S. 12 and U.S. 395 reassurance shield assembly posted after the entrance ramp from 20th Avenue. A sound wall separates the freeway from the residential areas to the south.

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One half mile west of the folded diamond interchange with N 4th Avenue south to the Pasco city center.

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N 4th Avenue continues from Exit 13 northward to industrial parks along the east side of Tri-Cities Airport and a large BNSF Railroad yard.

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U.S. 395 branches north from I-182/U.S. 12 along an expressway leading to Eltopia, Connell and Ritzville. SR 397 (Oregon Street) extends south from the cloverleaf interchange at Exit 14 to the Cable Bridge.

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Reassurance markers for I-182/U.S. 12 posted at the bridge spanning the BNSF Railroad Pasco Yard.

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Oregon Avenue leads SR 397 southward from Exit 14 to Ainsworth Street near the Port of Pasco. 22.31 miles in total length, SR 397 runs southeast from I-182 to Finley and west over the I-82 to SR 397 Intertie project completed in 2008 to Interstate 82 at Exit 114.

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SR 397 (Oregon Avenue) south crosses the Columbia River along the Cable Bridge. Formally named the Ed Hendler Bridge, the cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic on September 16, 1978.

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U.S. 395 turns northward along a freeway to Kartchner Street. U.S. 395 combines with I-90 east at Ritzville 73 miles to the northeast. U.S. 12 continues east from I-182, 47 miles to Walla Walla and 144 miles to Lewiston, Idaho, where it originally ended.

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I-182/U.S. 12 curve southeast to a six-ramp parclo interchange with E Lewis Street and Pasco-Kahlotus Road. Pasco-Kahlotus Road winds 41 miles northeastward to Kahlotus and the junction of SR 260 and SR 263.

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Commercial Avenue, a north side frontage road, serves industrial park areas to Kartchner Street at the exchange with U.S. 395. E Lewis Street west from Heritage Boulevard and E Lewis Place represent the original alignment of U.S. 410 and U.S. 12 into the Pasco city center.

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Removed sometime after Fall 2012, an end shield for Interstate 182 preceded the exit ramp for Lewis Street. U.S. 12 continues as a freeway to the at-grade intersection with E A Street.

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