This road has, for many stretches, been knicknamed "Hundred MPH Road", probably due to it’s straight, smooth, and empty characteristics. Speeding has been characterized as a "terrible epidemic" on this street, as the City of Kent (and by complacency, its residents) have blamed several severe DWI/DUI related accidents on speeding. Obviously this fails to recognize that drunks are deadly drivers at any speed. The speed limit rotates between 35 and 40 miles per hour, and officers will wait in the Soos Creek Park entrance for those individuals who come around the corner on to the empty stretch of road above the posted 40 mph speed. With a warning sign suggesting 30mph at the bend, they have been known to ticket for speeds as low as 4 or 5mph over the posted limit.