They’re literally going to stuff the Battery Street Tunnel with the old freeway. AARON BAGLEY
When I heard that the Alaskan Way Viaduct was going to be demolished, I immediately yearned for one thing and one thing only: dynamite.
I wanted to see that creaky old raised highway blown up into a million pieces, just like I saw the Kingdome blown up back in 2000. But Laura Newborn, a spokesperson for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project, assured me that blowing up the 60-year-old elevated highway was never a possibility.
“We had four different proposals, none of which included dynamite,” Newborn said. “The viaduct is simply too close to structures to be safely taken down [that way]. It needs to be taken down piece by piece, which is how they will do it.”
