Totally out of control money pit

WHAT IF MY AUNT HAS BALLS

So when we find out that this report was nothing more than speculative bullshit, you'll come clean, right? After all, it's not like you're a civil engineer, geologist or have any actual actual expertise in this.

Or you know, maybe the fact it's been raining a whole hell of a lot might have something to do with it. But please, let's continue to speculate here.

Retrofit.
It's still not too late.

Retrofit the Viaduct.
It's not too late to save billions.

Imagine an edit button...
Any techie's in Seattle?

Sounds like WSDOT is fed up with STP and Bertha as the rest of Seattle is.

OHMIGAWD the Stranger reader attitudes = No Empire State Building, No Hoover Dam, No Transatlantic fucking flight for god's sake. FUCK YOU naysayers, when you're flying around Seattle in subway's and tunnels in minutes you'll be whining about how fucking holograms are ruining your eyesight.

Seriously, pull the plug and retrofit the viaduct. This is stupid. Wouldn't this $ be better used is Seattle's subpar schools?

@5 is correct.

@10 also correct

@10: that's not how funds are apportioned.

and fuck the viaduct.

Retrofit the viaduct? What a joke. That thing is ugly, dangerous and unneccesary.
Instead, pull Bertha out, fill in her short little tunnel, tear down the viaduct and go with the surface/transit option that, you know, was cheaper and more likely to alleviate traffic than this ever was.

And @9, this project is hardly as groundbreaking (sorry) as those were. This is just a shitty tunnel for an outmoded form of transportation. If it ever opens, no one will be whizzing through it as more and more cars fill up the highway space (which is what happens when you build new highways, look it up). The real vision in this city is getting away from single occupant vehicles as our main mode of transport.

I don't care about the tunnel, just tear down that stupid viaduct. I don't care if Ballard can't get to West Seattle, or if the proletariat loses the view they get when they drive on it, or whatever other reason we are supposed to care about the viaduct for. People will get used to not having it, and we will be better for it not being there. Tear it down.

"So when we find out that this report was nothing more than speculative bullshit, you'll come clean, right? After all, it's not like you're a civil engineer, geologist or have any actual actual expertise in this."

"OHMIGAWD the Stranger reader attitudes = No Empire State Building, No Hoover Dam, No Transatlantic fucking flight for god's sake. FUCK YOU naysayers"

Thank you thank you.

As always, it's about money. That used to be ours.

By the way, FUCK yourself sir. Or madam or whatever falls in between. Just remember..be safe,

Tear down the Viaduct and just stop - Seattle never wanted the Tunnel and it's just insane to keep this Bertha farce going

"OHMIGAWD the Stranger reader attitudes = No Empire State Building, No Hoover Dam, No Transatlantic fucking flight for god's sake. "

Those things were actually worth doing. This tunnel, which replaces the viaduct in a way that provides no access to a location most viaduct traveler are coming to or going from, the CBD. If it came in on time and under budget, it still would have been an astonish waste or scarce infrastructure capital.

Have little fear oh-ye-who want the viaduct "torn down", Bertha has heard your pleas and shall (most likely) be the agent of its final demise. That is, wait just a while longer, Bertha will advance underneath the viaduct, something akin to a sinkhole will form under one of the viaduct's main supports, and that will close the viaduct with not a bang but subsiding whimper.

@21: that would satisfy me immensely.

They'll figure it out.

Hmm, if they were excavating more soil than they thought they were, perhaps that explains tipping that barge?

You mean Sgt_Doom was RIGHT (about the sinkholes)??!

@15: The viaduct does have a wonderful view on driving it; but even if it was retrofitted that view would be gone as I recall the proposed WSDOT video of it had high sound walls that obstructed the view of the city and the bay as you were driving on it. I can't find that video.