Duckitude
Hi: Don’t visit here much anymore… since we have been locked up down Lowman Beach Way… if you only knew.
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Thought you all would like a few reminders of one of the very influential folks who clearly helped to bring the tunnel fiasco to us, one of our very own, West Seattleite Patrick Gordon.
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See http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Expert-Viaduct-bored-tunnel-would-be-1302762.php
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http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/05/07/seattle-tunnel-bill-goes-to-governor/
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http://downtownseattle.com/pdf_files/resources/08-09DSA_AnnualReport.pdf
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Check page two of the 2008-09 DSA Annual Report, and I quote Mr. Patrick, the DSA Chair that year “As we entered this past year we paused to celebrate the Downtown Seattle Association’s Fifty Years of Vision, Growth & Community – a golden anniversary theme that proved quite prophetic in our historic 51st year. Of course I’m referring to the 100-year-impact decision to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a deep-bored tunnel – a decision for which DSA has been a tireless advocate for the better part of the past decade.”
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All this kind of “reshaping” the earth in “man’s image” to “improve it” smacks of the usual “if you have the power, don’t be ashamed to use it” and a kind of lurking “manifest destiny” evil streak….
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I was hoping they would just knock the old viaduct down and let a north and a south Seattle organically develop and adapt to the new geography. It would. The theory that the centralization of industries, retail, residences and entertainment is the best way to go is so out-dated at this point in time and has been shown to be so unhealthy for humans, that I was just hoping for no replacement of I-99.
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The pain we would experience is called “withdrawal.” Some day “cold turkey” will be forced on us as this kind of engineering over-reaching collapses en masse…