Too bad most people already voted. But have fun!

The Viaduct is Lookin Good! Really!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/uglyhighway/show/

Thanks for the offer Amy Kate, however
I think I stay home and begin preparing
the important parts of a proper Margarita's in happy anticpation of tomorrow night's AA show.

Besides, your Surface-Transit promotion is nothing more than the
displacement of current Viaduct motor
vehicle traffic to the streets of
Alaska Way. It will be far more
noisy, dirtier and dangerous than the current Viaduct has ever been.

Your cuddily, bucolic pastel poster should be used to depict what the Seattle waterfront might truly look like after construction of a cable stayed bay bridge. More land, less traffic, an ability to serve future
transit..a better waterfront for
everyone at a cost far below all other proposals.

Think about it in the rain tomorrow.

---Jensen

Yeah, a viaduct over the Charles Bridge is definitely an improvement.

Condo owners and developers of the world unite!

Biggest contributor to the rebuild campaign, drumroll.....Martin Selig, developer! Probably not at this march tomorrow. Probably not anywhere outside of his office or humungous SUV. The Right are such liars.

Hey Cogswell, thanks for confirming
Jensen's criticisms of the Surface Transit proposal. Nice to know Surface Transit is another road project which will have us pouring lanes of concrete to accomodate all that traffic. If anyone thinks the current viaduct is an impediment to accessing the waterfront, wait until you have to cross six lanes of bumper to bumper traffic. Surface Transit hasn't realized the Alaska Way corridor is so narrow that it will leave room for nothing else after accounting for Burlington Northern's tracks and the trolley.

Jensen is correct, if your desire is to have a waterfront that mirrors the "Say Yes" poster of the Surface Transit supporters, the only feasible way to accomplish it without destroying the waterfront dependent economy and infrastructure is to build a cable stayed bdrige.

Neither the bridge (over land or sea) nor the S&T idea have been made specific. The test for both will come over time.

Will the AWB traffic , in order to get the 35,000 cars per day forecast by CM, come directly from the Battery St. tunnel via a ramp? Will that mean we get 13 blocks of surface that connects two viaducts? How will people even current supporters react to that? Is there a better way? A computerized traffic circle at Aurora and Denny that directs people to the best street for getting to or through the CBD? Maybe we should shut down 520 and the express lanes to reduce the number of cars in the CBD (saved money could be used to build high speed rail around the lake). If the idea is to change the way we live, why only pick on the parts of Seattle that get nothing from Sound Transit?

Clearly there are issues with a bridge across the Bay. Not impossible, but it is deep and there is the navigation thing. The bridge would be a pure by-pass and depending on design could have huge towers. Please Jensen and Princess I'm not saying no - just that there are big questions to be anwsered.

The reason for the viaduct reminds me of the Great Wall of China but uglier.
It look likes the walls around a Castle during Arthurs days. Its makes Seattle look like a walled in Fortress.
Can you imagine if it surrounded the city on the Center side, to the hill side and then the south side. That would be cool huh. Then we can mount archers on it to scare away the enemy ships that come into the harbor.
I Voted no for rebuild. Tear down that piece of crap. I'm open for a change. And either way were going to pay for it, so I prefer the surface idea than to that monstrosity. And I aint no rich condo owner either.

Hope you're enjoying the rain!

Waah!! The rebuild option is ugly and a monstrosity!

There are plenty of more than valid reasons to oppose a rebuild, but its loudest critics could triple their credibility by not wetting themselves and calling it names every five seconds.

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