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Originally posted by island911
The Alaskan Way Viaduct is sinking, not due to earthquake damage to the structure, but due to letting the sea-wall, that holds up the dirt, that holds up the Viaduct foundation, go to the worms . .. it has been neglected. -- Bad Planning!
SO now we get to have a Seattle BIG DIG . .. . and what will happen to theose hundred ot thousands of cars that use that every day?
Right, they will be routed to I-5 . .. where the traffic for the mariners games will be. .. .where the traffic for the Seatac airpot will be.
I'm sure the idea is to clog I-5 so badly that the voters can be TOLD the even more money is needed . . and WILL be extracted.
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Who is the conspiracy theorist here?
I appreciated the information you gave one day about the sea wall. I checked it out and you are correct. I'd additionally say you are correct in asserting that bad planning is everywhere. If we could have preserved it, great. Shame on us if we missed taht oportunity. If if not, at least we could have been ahead of the curve in terms of repair/replacement. But the voters are so scary and they believe taxes are not needed and our Legislature has been fairly conservative during that exact same time period. At this point we all agree we're way behind the 8-ball. And it looks like you are aware that the needed improvements are going to be excruciatingly painful. (I think they're planning to run AWV traffic through downtown somehow. Still, not pretty.) We should have started twenty years ago.
The Big Dig is in question. It'll be wildly expensive. On the other hand, it would eliminate the eyesore/obstruction of a raised freeway right between the world's most charming city, and the sea.