SR 202 was extended southwest of downtown North Bend to a new interchange with I-90 in 1978, after it was moved to a freeway bypass of North Bend. The area around the new interchange was annexed by the city of North Bend prior to the opening of the I-90 bypass, and a factory outlet mall opened at the interchange in 1990. Since the early 2000s, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has built several roundabouts on SR 202 in Woodinville, Snoqualmie, Fall City, and North Bend, in an effort to improve the road's safety as traffic increases along the corridor. Another section of SR 202 between Redmond and Sammamish was widened in 2008 to accommodate additional traffic and included the construction of a new flyover ramp at the SR 520 interchange. In 2007, WSDOT also studied possible improvements to SR 202 in the Sammamish area, recommending the construction of new lanes, traffic signals, guardrails, and other projects. The study's recommended projects would cost an estimated $52.9 million to complete, and were not funded by the state government.