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Murrey’s Disposal/City of Fife Spring Clean Up –
April 23rd-27th
Items Collected | Date |
Extra Garbage–up to 3 32-gallon cans or bags | Week of April 23rd on your regular collection day |
Extra Yard Waste—-up to 3 32-gallon cans or biodegradable | Week of April 23rd on your regular collection day |
1 Appliance—Range, refrigerator, freezer, furnace, dryer, washing machine, dish washer, hot water tank, trash compactor, or air conditioner | Set out curbside (sorry no alley collection) Monday, April 23rd by 7:00am for pick up. Appliance will be collected during clean up week. |
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If you have any questions, please email us at DMDisposal@wasteconnections.com or call Monday – Friday from 7:30am-5:00pm to speak with a customer service representative at 253-414-0347. Thank you for your continued business!
The Tacoma Dome Link Extension is part of the voter-approved system expansion that extends regional light rail approximately 9.7 miles from the Federal Way Transit Center to the Tacoma Dome Station area. The project travels through the cities of Federal Way, Milton, Fife and Tacoma, and the reservation of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. The project also includes an operations and maintenance facility in the south corridor (South King and Pierce counties).
Fife is on the cusp of great things and we’re counting on businesses and residents to help shape our city’s future. The Fife Planning Commission has researched the options for the placement of the light rail station and will be recommending a location north of Pacific Highway (SR 99) as the preferred alternative to Fife City Council.
A Safer, more walk-able Transit Oriented Development/City Center
Better vehicular circulation to access parking garage
An incentive to redevelop 360-degrees around the station
Voice your opinion at the open house or comment online!
Tacoma Dome Link Extension Open House
When: Tuesday, April 24th
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Fife Community Center
or Comment Online
Q&A on Traffic, Road Construction & Relief
Traffic in Fife and the surrounding areas is awful. There is no sugar coating it. We are receiving daily calls and e-mails asking what Fife is doing to make it better. We wish it were a simple fix, but construction is slow, lack of funding for large projects hampers development and an economic boom compound the complex issues that create the traffic jams in the South Sound. Fife Community Development Director Steve Friddle answers some common questions below:
Why is traffic so bad on Interstate 5?
In addition to growth, there are many construction projects happening, all which will eventually help, but currently add to the traffic congestion while under construction:
The net result is that our local streets get as congested as I-5. WSDOT will eventually finish their projects, but in the meantime, they’ll continue to make changes that will chase traffic onto Fife streets.
Why don’t we just build what we need?
Federal, State and regional funding lags or is insufficient to commence/complete large Interstate and alternative transportation projects. Fife is working with our regional partners on three additional large projects which are in the hopper:
What additional local projects are we working on that will help?
Because of Fife’s unique location inside the Puyallup Tribe’s Reservation, next to an international Port and intersected by an Interstate Freeway, any local project requires a huge inter-agency coordination component to make the following projects happen:
What does this all mean?
Again, we are very fortunate to live in a vibrant growing community and share the goal and expectation that we are always improving. This includes a long list of recent success stories delivering transportation projects by the State, Tacoma, Port and Fife that have lessen congestion and should be celebrated. However, from this planners perspective, these success stories lag well behind growth and are quickly forgotten as congestion worsens and solutions continue to get more difficult and costly.
I remain confident that the continued, concerted effort and creativity of our leaders, residents, business and all the regional partners will result in solutions. In the interim, continue to direct questions and ideas to me since I am one of several persons responsible for finding the solution to make the city function better again.
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