Oh, for fuck’s sake, this thing.
Here’s the deal: The city has been trying to figure out how to get rid of the Alaskan Way Viaduct probably since before some members of the SECB were born, but definitely since 2001, when the Nisqually earthquake almost knocked it down, and super definitely since 2010, when the city council approved a plan to dig a tunnel to replace it (and that plan almost immediately became an unmitigated civic nightmare from which we may never wake up). When the viaduct finally goes—either at the hands of the city or the Big One—the city has a years-in-the-works plan to rebuild the street and add overlook points along the waterfront.
This initiative would derail that plan…
