From a local website, seeminlgy based on this article from a conservative magazine:

Quietly but systematically, the Mah/Clarkson administrations are advancing the plan to build a huge Oly/Lacey Super Highway, one/fourth a football-field-wide, through the heart of the Olympia, from the Lacey border at Komachin Middle School to the Tumwater border north of the cemetery.

Once complete, the new road will allow cars from the far east of Thurston County to enter Olympia through the Lacey's Mullen Road , bypassing the downtown Olympia exits in the process. The suburban cars, without passing by the highway sign for the Urban Onion, will drive on what will be the county's most modern road straight into the heart of Olympia. The Lacey cars will cross the border in two lanes.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Lacey segment of the Olympia Lacey Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various local government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private neighborhood and homeowner associations have been working behind the scenes to create the Olympia Lacey Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The Olympia public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North Thurston County Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater are about to drive into reality.

In my months of reading Olympia city council packets every Friday, I had read of and heard rumors of this project. I had always scoffed at the myth. There was simply no way the maze of roads and suburban subdivisions in SE Olympia and Lacey could be straightened to make such a road possible.

But, after seeing the evidence slowly mount before my eyes, I can no longer but believe that such a monterous project is coming.

This map illustrates two major projects that will complete this transportation juggernaut:

Here and here are two reports from Lacey that are evidence that they're interested in extending Mullen Road beyond Ruddell Road and up to college.

Here and here are evidence that the city of Olympia is complicite in joining this effort by extending the road from the Lacey border by extending Log Cabin Road over to Wiggins.

These two projects will extend one single road from as far east as Hwy 510 all the way to the Old Brewery in Tumwater. Yelm Highway north anyone?

What are the long term impacts of this Superhigway?

1. Will the more conservative SE Olympia, now with better access to its neighbor in Lacey, break off and join the right wing city to the right?

2. With a clear shot to Lacey, will Tumwater shoppers avoid Olympia all-together?