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Team Nickels has registered its pro-Alaskan Way tunnel campaign and has already started raising money for a likely November showdown between the tunnel and a rebuilt viaduct. Prepare for a campaign blitz: They’ve already spent $25,000 on focus groups.
Of course, who needs campaign contributions when you have your very own publicly funded PR machine?
Remember, Erica: public opinion's going to sway hard towards a non-rebuild once the citizenry has to live a few years without the viaduct.
Build an 8 lane tunnel. Build arenas. Build stadiums. Build trains. Build monorails. Build bridges. Build the commons. Build it all, I say, and to hell with all of you short-sighted penny-pinchers.
In 10 years, we'll all reap the benefits of these civic monuments and the wealth they generate, but you will have long forgotten the precious money you contributed in taxes.
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How many options will City Council place on November ballot? They do not have to use the advisory ballot at all. WSDOT and Mayor prefer six-lane tunnel. Della prefers six-lane replacement viaduct. The People's Waterfront Coalition suggests arterial and transit improvements, but the state seems to imply that their money ($2B) would go elsewhere. Some like the retrofit. That's four options. I prefer a fifth option: a four-lane tunnel with ramps to Elliott and Western avenues and dynamic tolling added to the bypass tunnel of the EIS. The replacement viaduct is too ugly; the six-lane tunnel is too costly; the PWC option loses the state money. we need the Goldilocks option: not too hot and not too cold. A four-lane tunnel seems just right.