The public is invited to this afternoon’s kickoff of the Driving 101 Traffic Safety Project designed to increase driver safety awareness on U.S. Highway 101 between Port Angeles and the eastern Jefferson County line.
The event beings at 2 p.m. in the lobby of Deer Park Cinemas, east of Port Angeles on Highway 101 at Deer Park Road.
The agencies and citizens involved in the project will dedicate the traffic safety corridor, and the project’s steering committee will unveil its custom road sign as well as its action plan for the next two years.
The event will also recognize people killed on North Olympic Peninsula roads in the past four years.
A parade of emergency services vehicles, lights flashing in honor of highway victims, will climax today’s two-hour event.