I’ll take a pat on the back.
After the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake which damaged buildings and shook downtown Seattle including swaying Key Tower, I went to a public meeting of the Seattle City Council and graphically, emphatically said the Viaduct needs to come down and a tunnel put in place else we would have a situation as Oakland’s raised interstate in their 1987 earthquake.
I said it would also connect Downtown with the waterfront and provide residents with a park area.
17 years later, here we are.
Now there’s the idea of putting a ‘LID’ over the I-5 underpass that cuts through downtown. It will muffle the freeway noise and again open a park for residents.
As liberal as Seattle is, I can’t leave because many people here hide their politics and come out to make life more enjoyable and better. It truly is a beautiful city, just wish we could be rid of the radical left fringe.
Boeing HQ should come back from Chicago and provide major influence, but that’s wishful thinking.
I would not support a GOP Mayor candidate because it’s a lost cause for now but I would support an Independent candidate because I think they would have a chance to win. Libertarian candidate, I fdon’t think so.
We need to tear down the convention center and add roadway capacity through downtown but instead doing that they are expanding the convention center (it sits atop interstate 5 for those non locals).
We have only 1 general purpose lane dedicated to southbound vehicle traffic through downtown Seattle.
All other lanes are either exit lanes or a carpool lane.
Imagine L.A. or Boston or N.Y.C. having only 1 highway that goes North/South through it and one direction has traffic choked down to 1 lane for cars that are not stopping in the city. WTF Chuck!
It is so bad now that on sat. and sun mornings at 9 a.m. you will be in slowdowns 3 miles from downtown.
It is so bad, and they know they are making it worse, which is why they are buildinf a tunnel to replace the bridge...a tunnel with LESS capacity and they are tolling it...but are trying to keep the tolls low enough so everyone doesn’t just take surface streets.
No, my beautiful birth city is no longer beautiful, it has been transformed into a rancid pot of drug junkies committing a sundry of property crimes to support their habit, 400+ homeless camps throughout the city, overfilled with garbage spewing out into neighborhoods.
The 'progressives' on the city council ignoring/abetting the homeless scourge, corruption unabated at city hall to reward the homeless-industrial complex leaders who do nothing to alleviate the problem but to encourage it's growth with more taxes.
The residents of Seattle are fed-up with this blight happening in Seattle and are organizing and speaking out.
If you're a FB user, go to this site and see what citizens are saying and doing about it.
https://www.facebook.com/safeseattle.org/?ref=br_rs
A conservative or 'moderate' will never get elected to the Seattle city council until the Mike O'Briens and Kshama Sawants are kicked to the curb. I certainly hope Seattle citizens wake-up.