The casino says last month, lawmakers allocated $26.9 million in additional funding for SR 18 improvements.
Since 2010, there have been 25 serious-injury or fatal traffic accidents on that stretch of highway, according to the casino.įour of those fatalities were Snoqualmie Casino employees.įollowing the crash, Snoqualmie Casino and the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe offered the Washington State Department of Transportation $1 million to speed up the process of widening SR-18. The shuttle comes after two Snoqualmie Casino employees, a mother and a daughter, were killed while on their morning commute in October. Snoqualmie Casino has launched a new, free employee shuttle to provide a 'safer ride' across the dangerous seven-mile stretch of SR-18 between Tiger Mountain and Issaquah-Hobart Road. New shuttle for Snoqualmie Casino employees
