How old was the I-90 bridge that sank?

Some of us over on Seattle Transit Blog are speculating on doing a Lake Washington Tunnel instead of floating bridges.

World’s Most Livable Cities List In 2013 Dominated By Australia, Canada

Why? EIU explains that top scores tend to go to “mid-sized cities in wealthier countries with a relatively low population density.” Thus, a whopping seven of the world’s top 10 “most livable cities” in 2013 belong to these two vast and sparsely populated commonwealth nations.

http://www.ibtimes.com/worlds-most-livab…

Just like 1963...or 1986...when Seattle was sparse. And more livable than now...with all the ugly density of 2013.

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@3 Do you even know how to read? It's the countries that are sparsely populated, not the cities within them. I would hardly call Vancouver low density.

Commuting over 520 for maybe 20 years now, they totally need to replace it. On the 255 bus, on a windy day, yeah that bus will struggle to steer straight. You can feel the bus swaying left and right. While an earthquake can easily sink it, the odds of an earthquake are low, but the odds of a 70-100 mph wind storm are more common and the last one we had (2006?), they had to shut down the bridge and open up one of the sections to relieve stress, otherwise it would have sunk.

@3 @6 -- Add Toronto to that list as well. Density has little to do with it. There are wide variety of cities in the U. S., both dense and sprawling, but we can't land one on the list, but Canada lands 3? How many cities are there in Canada? I mean, holy cow, they get about half of there cities on there (I'm exaggerating, but still).

The obvious reason those cities, and the ones in Australia, New Zealand, Finland and Austria are all more livable is that they are in Australia, New Zealand, Finland and Austria. Those are all countries that spend a lot of money on social programs. This reduces crime (without increasing the percentage of folks in prison) as well as homelessness, poverty, etc. Everyone benefits, especially folks that live in cities.

Who ever invented the giant scissors was a genius!

What @9 said.

Tangentially: Any infrastructure dorks out there, the last day of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was yesterday as the perdy replacement gets set to open Tuesday. If your flying in to OAK, (part of) your drive into the City is going to look very different. Moreso on the way out.

http://baybridgeinfo.org/

@7 - the 255 was the bus of my youth! I lived at the very last stop, and spent my teen years taking the hour long journey into the city.

Also neither here nor there, but shit, haven't heard the numbers 255 in years and got all nostalgic.

@1, that bridge was opened in 1940, and sank 50 years later -- not because of any defect in the bridge but because genius engineers had cut the pontoons open in order to enlarge them; the storm that took out the bridge would have been easily weathered if they'd left it alone.

The Evergreen Point bridge is longer, but it was never beautiful like the Lacey Murrow was (before they wrecked it after the sinking).