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City Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Home Invaders, Viaduct Concerns, and a Zeppelin!
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:55 PM
Posted by news intern John Friis.
In highly adorable home invasion news, neighborhood blog My Ballard regales us with the story of a baby squirrel trapped in a Ballard man's stove. Adorable evidence of the adorable home invader can be found here. Adorable!
In more sobering—and relieving—home invasion news, SeattleCrime.com is reporting that two men have been arrested in connection with an August 26th armed robbery in Highland Park. According to police reports, "All three victims were bound with duct tape on their wrists, ankles, eyes and mouth. The suspects spent approximately 45 minutes in the house." A number of items, including handguns and rifles, were stolen. Police are still looking for additional suspects.
Blogging Georgetown raises concerns about moving industrial freight through the city once the Alaskan Way Viaduct comes crashing down. He complains that moving forward on the viaduct replacement without an alternative route in place will turn the area "into more of a choke point for such traffic and pollution." Um, doesn't the viaduct need to be torn down before anything can replace it? Am I missing something here? Maybe we should just wait for this method of demolition.
And finally, a Zeppelin is spotted in the U District. "The Eureka" takes off from Paine Field in Everett and will be lazily lolling about the city skies for another week. Unfortunately for pyromaniacs, modern Zeppelins are filled with inert helium, rather than flammable hydrogen gas. But $375 for a ride? Oh, the humanity!
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It's going to be a nightmare.
Luckily, bus lines operating in that zone will have the ability to remove parking lanes and set off bus/transit only green lights while the cars stew.
Nightmare. Time to kill the Billionaires Tunnel. Now.
Even a zeppelin like the one I see going by won't save you now - you can feel that giant sucking sound of the Billionaires Tunnel absorbing all the tax dollars for the next 20-30 years already and it's just going to get much much much much worse.
No, worse than that.
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Not sure about high school students tho.
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cause that's how much your "option" costs each homeowner and each renter in this entire city when you add in all the cost overruns that only Seattle will be paying for.
Yeah, you could buy a nice car for that. Or ride a bus until you died with bus passes.
Got cash?
Cause the city doesn't thanks to the Governor who hates Seattle so.
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If the extra cars in downtown would be a "nightmare" with the tunnel, wouldn't that make the Surface Option akin to dying a horrible, violent death in your sleep?
(Aka: if you can't even stay logically consistent within a single post, why even bother?)
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I wouldn't mind taking a trip in one as long as it was really going somewhere and not just around the city.
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@8 read the studies. they show the tunnel causes the greatest movement of cars onto the city's already full roads and the greatest toll avoidance impacts - as well as dumping more freight onto city streets due to the under capacity for freight issue. The Rebuilt Viaduct can handle all the freight without displacement and all the cars without displacement. The Surface Plus Transit, by removing parking lanes on arterials and shifting turn lights and lanes to a lesser frequency plus adding freight and transit only lanes can also handle the capacity.
All this for the vanity of a few Billionaires and their Millionaire comrades trying to get a free ride on the backs of the Seattle Citizens pocketbooks for a Tunnel we don't need, don't want, and even voted against. One that will take down most statewide elections with it due to its unpopularity in Seattle, in the County, and around the State.
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