Construction on the Montlake Lid over Highway 520, between Portage Bay and Lake Washington, can be seen in the middle distance. A future 520 lid connecting Roanoke and North Capitol Hill will be built over the open space you can see at the bottom of this photo.
Lester Black
Very interesting, I feel like that money might be better allocated elsewhere like, I dunno, helping the homeless but I suppose it could go to worse places. Is it possible that I-5 might undergo similar renovations in the future?
A frequent finder to queries about the chaos of Seattle’s layout is-“Oh, we’ve got these mountains, and all this water, the graphs makes a logical grid impossible!”
Bullshit. Vancouver has much closer and taller mountains and alone water, and they have a fucking grid. Their streets make logical sense, no meandering cowpaths.
if only I-5 had been routed down the spur (I-405) thus going around Seattle, and I-90 would have aligned with the West Seattle Freeway so the the I-90 terminus would have been the West Seattle Freeway terminus
didn't see that coming- Lester's maybe final Stranger column a valentine to the more gracious, beautiful Seattle of days of yore.
Perhaps a heart does beat in there somewhere.
Very interesting, I feel like that money might be better allocated elsewhere like, I dunno, helping the homeless but I suppose it could go to worse places. Is it possible that I-5 might undergo similar renovations in the future?
Seems someone's Switched the labeling of the 520 east- and west-bound lanes on The Map. I hope they figure it out before they get Almost finished.
Bigger Boondoggles Have happened.
see: floating bridges/galloping gertie WA
@2 -- Nope they didn't
Apologies.
A frequent finder to queries about the chaos of Seattle’s layout is-“Oh, we’ve got these mountains, and all this water, the graphs makes a logical grid impossible!”
Bullshit. Vancouver has much closer and taller mountains and alone water, and they have a fucking grid. Their streets make logical sense, no meandering cowpaths.
Sigh...
if only I-5 had been routed down the spur (I-405) thus going around Seattle, and I-90 would have aligned with the West Seattle Freeway so the the I-90 terminus would have been the West Seattle Freeway terminus
didn't see that coming- Lester's maybe final Stranger column a valentine to the more gracious, beautiful Seattle of days of yore.
Perhaps a heart does beat in there somewhere.
"beautiful Seattle of days of yore"
Like when Gasworks Park was an actual gas works?