Renaming Highway 530 the "Oso Slide Memorial Highway"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

OLYMPIA — A 23-mile stretch of Highway 530 between Arlington and Darrington is getting renamed to ensure drivers understand they are traveling on hallowed ground.

It will be known as the “Oso Slide Memorial Highway” to honor and remember the mudslide five years ago that claimed 43 lives.

The Washington State Transportation Commission unanimously approved a resolution renaming part of the highway Wednesday morning.

“For me it’s not just a highway and it’s not pavement. It’s sacred ground and that’s how it should be treated,” said John Hadaway, whose brother, Steven Hadaway, was among those killed March 22, 2014.

The renamed stretch will be between mileposts 22 and 45 with signs inscribed with Oso Slide Memorial Highway. The signs, which will be 5-feet-tall and 4-feet-wide, will bear the date and time of the slide and the number “43.”

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[Blues Heron]

1. Good gawd

[Stargazer09]

2. It was horrific

The real estate developers that built that subdivision were directly responsible for most of the deaths.

The landslide was due to happen anyway, but better land use regulations would have saved lives.