It turns out that state agencies can have a little fun from time to time.

I had the pleasure of working the afternoon traffic desk Thursday when former KIRO Newsradio producer and good friend Nicole Thompson texted me a picture. It was a shot of the new toll signs on southbound SR 167 between Renton and Auburn. The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and Good To Go! are testing the new multiple destination signs as the new tolling system and equipment are preparing to roll out later this year.

Where the prices for those three trips would be was the word “sntchh,” to be read as snitch. Thompson asked if this was intentional or if the signs had been hacked. It’s not like we haven’t seen the Department of Transportation (DOT) signs all over the world hacked with funny or e

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