Kittitas County amends speed‑limit listings and raises Bullfrog Road limit from 35 to 50 mph

Kittitas County commissioners on Wednesday approved updates to county code chapter 10.08 that remove outdated listings and correct inconsistencies in the county speed‑limit tables, and they approved a separate amendment to raise the posted speed on a section of Bullfrog Road from 35 miles per hour to 50 miles per hour.

Josh Frederickson of Kittitas County Public Works told commissioners his office audited entries in chapter 10.08 against the county road log submitted to the County Road Administration Board and found streets that had been annexed or vacated still listed in code and one road listed twice. "We wanted to remove those," Frederickson said, and the proposed amendments correct those duplications and inconsistencies with previously adopted ordinances.

Frederickson also presented an engineering study for the Bullfrog Road segment between Interstate 90 and Tumble Creek (milepost 0 to milepost 0.72). The study used standard local practice and Federal…