Seattle took down a massive elevated highway on the waterfront only to wind up building a 10-lane surface highway.
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On top of this, a new four-lane SR-99 tunnel was opened, which is supposed to, uh, complement? the new waterfront surface highway.
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Sounds of Seattle’s waterfront highway that is far from finished. Who wouldn’t want to eat and play by such a deafening space? 🔊 🔊
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Oh my. Where’s the waterfont highway though? h/t
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A big reason why Seattle is getting a new waterfront highway is for the convenience of motorist ferry users even though most Colman Dock ferry riders are passengers who walk, roll, and bike on.
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It hurts. We absolutely knew better but here we are.
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Congratulations, Seattle: You built the equivalent of Portland's old Harbor Drive, the waterside highway we demolished 50 years ago to build Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The viaduct eyesore is gone, but the car sewer lives on. Way to go!
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There seems to be a segment of people who want to argue what a highway is because the idea of having a waterfront highway in a city is obviously awful. We hate to break it, but this is a highway no matter how you cut it. The powers that be blew it.
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People just don’t like acknowledging that induced demand is a thing, especially the powers that be. Constrain the supply of car space and people will adjust accordingly. That’s what should have happened on the waterfront.
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remember, the reason we have this wide ass highway on the waterfront is because the WSDOT engineer said "you can't just remove 90,000 cars. they have to go somewhere. that's just how it works"
but then that absolutely happened twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/st…
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Boston spent $25 billion to burry it's massive elevated highway, build a park... and create 6 lanes of surface level traffic...
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