Viaduct Vigilantes
Just got a phone message from People’s Waterfront Coalition hero Grant Cogswell. What I gather from Grant’s voice mail is that he was trying to attend a Viaduct conference at Benaroya Hall. (Grant and the PWC advocate knocking down the Viaduct, but, unlike the mayor, they don’t want to replace it with a tunnel) The PWC would rather do a series of fixes to the traffic grid downtown and turn the viaduct into a regular arterial, rather than a huge, $4 billion highway. It’s a cool urbanist vision for de-emphasizing cars. Anyhoo: Grant reports that Benaroya security forcibly removed him from the building. DEVELOPING!