I can't believe that I am going to say this about a woman who in her Mayoral Campaign declared "there's a war on cars," but nice work Elizabeth!

Eight years is simply not enough time to study the alternatives.

I love it when you pro-tunnel bigots have to eat crow.

Seriously, you said it couldn't be stopped.

The battle hasn't even started.

Just hoping that I didn't break SLOG with a bold tag ...

"However, the viaduct is crumbling—it threatens to collapse on drivers if anyone sneezes—and the state has an urgent interest making sure people aren't caught in a human juicer."

Oh My God!! The viaduct is crumbling. We need to replace it immediately with whatever the state dictates, no matter the costs or other impacts.

Huh... What's that... It's been like that for 8 years? The deep bore tunnel wasn't even considered until about a year ago? All the other plans that had preliminary studies were dismissed? Even the ones previously preferred by the WSDOT?

OK now I'm just confused.

Just tell Seattle voters it's going to cost 11 Billion $ and that will put an end to the tunnel right away.

Elizabeth Campbell, now grasping for attention, latches onto whatever is on the front page of the daily metro newspaper.
Will McGinn do pro bono work here, or will Elizabeth Campbell... Or is she getting paid to do this by, oh, I do not know, 3 degrees of separation from McGinn.

If there is linkage, she has a bigger problem than that run for mayor.

Quite frankly, it will not be too hard to hard to find a coule loose facts that are similar enough to imply linkage (not like I write for the Stranger or Publicola, but it is similar bs).

Btw, this story is 3 weeks old, Stranger.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/transportation…

@ 9) That was a different suit, filed in federal court. This one is in King County Superior Court. But thanks.

@7 for the budget busting win.

The tunnel isn't that expensive if we save up for it.

That $4.1 billion price tag comes to some $6800 per resident, so start saving!

'Campbell calls herself the “titular head of SCAT.”'

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

@6:

"However, the viaduct is crumbling—it threatens to collapse on drivers if anyone sneezes—and the state has an urgent interest making sure people aren't caught in a human juicer."

The viaduct can be torn down within 2-3 years, the surface and transit improvements put into place, and then then a tunnel can be studied and bored later if the surface/transit advocates are wrong and the city shuts down. That, in fact, is what the Governor's stakeholder group recommended. It was only because of big business pressure that the governor insisted a tunnel be built first.

"SCAT"? Really?

Campbell + McGinn = 2 sides of the same loony coin.

@18 FTW

WiS it will be really sweet to watch all these lawsuits get thrown out of court, and the tunnel finally going forward.

Enough already.

Fucking obstructionists.

So long as they wait until after the vote has been certified, it makes the issuance of a contract highly problematic.

In war, you don't fight just one battle. You push your enemy into a no-win situation and make him think he has an escape route - but use that as the kill zone.

Seattle doesn't want the Billionaires' Tunnel. And you know it.

Will in Seattle, you must be from out of Seattle. We don't talk like that here.

Hence the "in Seattle" part.

(waits while the tumblers click in in Ralph's brain)

Actually, we have a lot of people who were in the military here - you just don't know it.

Ah, the shrapnel... the shrapnel... my God the VC got me! I understand now Will.

No, you don't.

You know what?

I love traffic.......Nothing is better than being stuck in traffic with a blasting headache and fresh coffee spilled on the inside of my car do to a suddne stop in traffic.

Oh yea I love to pay taxes. Lets see another sales tax. Oh maybe an income tax. Oh this is great.

Darn, hey thanks a lot Sue!!!!

I was looking forward to getting stuck in traffic. Oh this tunnel was going to be fantastic. I have fantasies of hours in traffic.

Another dime or two on the gas tax and hey maybe a sales tax of around 10%. That would have been great.

Oh well maybe the our great govener and visionary mayor can still persevere.

I sure would hate to have my vote count.

When the sue fits wear it.

Why Elizabeth, I think you created a filibuster.

Jeeze, just rebuild the viaduct already. It's is the only option that make sense for economical and traffic capacity reasons.

Unless you have an alternative to rebuilding that costs less while not reducing traffic capacity, then STFU.