The wall is coming down
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The wall is coming down
Cities used to think walls were a good idea. Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct is coming down starting tonight. Many people I know are taking a nostalgic last drive on it today. Personally, I'm not going to miss it.
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Why a duck, why no chicken.
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do." Captain Jack SparrowComment
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See where those cars are backed in? I once parked there in my old Toyota pickup while I got some fish and chips. Came back to find a small crowd around the truck. A brake drum, we assume from a scrap metal truck, had flown off the viaduct and was embedded (no pun intended) in the back. Put a hole in the bed.“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady StantonComment
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One ugly POS.Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017)​Comment
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I remember when one of the last stretches of elevated rail came down in NYC. Called "The El. Think the opposite of subway. Dad turned a news photo of the demolition work into that year's Christmas card . . . No El.Comment
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The view from the viaduct is stunning, about the only good thing about it. Seattle in general has squandered its waterfront. Its frontage on the sound is essentially unusable for the average person, and is an afterthought to the cities focus. South lake union is perhaps even worse. Such opportunity for a city built around its waterfront, but it's just a city that happens to be near water instead.Comment
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Boston went through a similar metamorphosis, when the 'Central Artery', a huge elevated highway the separated most of the city, from the harbor waterfront, was removed, and the highway put underground.
The program was called the 'Big Dig', and it was massively over budget and over schedule.... VERY controversial... but the end result was a fantastic improvement in the aesthetics of the city. Portions of the reclaimed land are now called the Rose Kennedy Greenway."Reason and facts are sacrificed to opinion and myth. Demonstrable falsehoods are circulated and recycled as fact. Narrow minded opinion refuses to be subjected to thought and analysis. Too many now subject events to a prefabricated set of interpretations, usually provided by a biased media source. The myth is more comfortable than the often difficult search for truth."
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Trust that they have considered how the traffic will adapt to surrounding roads without causing jams.Comment
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Like Boston, the Alaskan Way Viaduct is being replaced by a tunnel which is already complete. There will be a three week delay in transferring traffic to the tunnel however while they reroute the entrance ramps. I'm not traveling south at all for the next three weeks.Comment
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The view from the viaduct is stunning, about the only good thing about it. Seattle in general has squandered its waterfront. Its frontage on the sound is essentially unusable for the average person, and is an afterthought to the cities focus. South lake union is perhaps even worse. Such opportunity for a city built around its waterfront, but it's just a city that happens to be near water instead.
It took a long time for that approach to be outgrown, and we still see the hangover from it everywhere. Some cities have done a better job than others of converting. Here in Portland, we have yet to come up with a reasonable solution for Interstate-5 hugging the banks of the Willamette River thru most of downtown.
I was involved for a while with a group that was promoting the effort to bring bodies back to the river thru adding River Taxis as part of the transportation infrastructure - with the longer goal of reclaiming the waterfront from the freeway.
Kudos to Seattle for their efforts!David G
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