Tag: alaskan way viaduct

March 27, 2018

Bike on I-5, the Aurora Bridge and the soon-to-be-closed waterfront Viaduct April 8

Cascade Bicycle Club’s Emerald City Ride 2018 won’t ever be repeated because part of the route will be on the slated-for-demolishion Alaskan Way Viaduct. The third annual Emerald City Ride sticks with the theme: Bike on freeways typically off-limits to biking. And 2018 is shaping up to be one of the best routes yet. Rather…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, aurora bridge, cascade bicycle club, emerald city ride 2018, events, i-5
April 4, 2017

Seattle still doesn’t need a downtown car tunnel, but crews deserve a victory lap today

Seattle Bike Blog has been opposed to the downtown car tunnel since this site started in 2010, and we still are. It’s an enormous investment in unsustainable transportation that will likely make downtown and South Lake Union traffic worse. It’s a massive greenhouse gas generator with very little utility for transit and no utility for walking and…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, ed murray, sr 99, wsdot
March 2, 2017

Walk through the Battery Street Tunnel Sunday + What will be its legacy in our city?

The Battery Street Tunnel has been part of Seattle for 65 years, but very few people have ever had the opportunity to walk through it. Well, Sunday morning is your chance. Walk the Battery is a free public event, part of an ongoing art initiative “b’End Tunnel” by Aaron Asis and Project Belltown that will…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, aurora, b’End Tunnel, battery street tunnel, belltown, lid i-5, sr 99, waterfront
November 1, 2016

Seattle’s planned waterfront highway takes major step forward. It must be stopped.

It is 2016. Nearly every month this year reached the hottest global average on record. Cities across the world and across our nation are working to remove downtown highways that divide and depress their vital economic and cultural centers. Yet Seattle of all places is still preparing to build a new surface highway between the…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, waterfront, waterfront seattle
August 1, 2016

Bike the Vote! Where to drop your ballot (+ NO on the Viaduct Park, YES on housing)

Voter turnout for the August 2 primary is looking very low so far. Don’t miss your chance to help the housing levy scream to victory. And hey, dropping your ballot at a dropbox is a great excuse for a bike ride on a beautiful day. It’s also good practice for ST3 in November. We were…
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tagged: 2016 primary, affordable housing, alaskan way viaduct, kate martin
July 1, 2015

Our latest look at plans for a new downtown waterfront

The draft Environmental Impact Statement for the redesigned Seattle downtown waterfront is out. You have until August 12 to submit comments, which you can do via this online survey or by emailing [email protected]. The final EIS should be out in late 2015 or early 2016, and construction should be ready to begin in 2017. There…
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tagged: alaskan way, alaskan way viaduct, downtown, waterfront