Tag: deep bore tunnel

August 2, 2024

In July, Lime bikes and scooters carried half as many trips as the $2B SR-99 tunnel

People in Seattle took 24,118 trips on Lime bikes and scooters every day on average during the month of July. That is nearly five times the average weekday ridership for both Seattle Streetcar lines combined, and it’s about half the average number of vehicles using the $2 billion SR-99 tunnel under downtown (47,291 average vehicles…
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tagged: bike share, deep bore tunnel, limebike, scooter share, sr 99
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
January 26, 2016

Rethinking Seattle’s Freeways: Mr. Inslee, tear down this Aurora wall

What if Bertha never finishes the SR 99 highway tunnel? What if SR 99 doesn’t need to be a freeway-style highway through downtown at all? And what if that’s true for the whole city, too? In other words, what if we tear down that awful Aurora Ave median wall once and for all? I’m talking…
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tagged: aurora, deep bore tunnel, fremont, green lake, jay inslee, phinney ridge, queen anne, rethinking seattle’s freeways, sr 99, wallingford
January 7, 2015

Seattle’s highway tunnel wins award! … for ‘Worst Highway Boondoggle’

Seattle is a city that is doing everything. Our city makes all the lists of places in the nation that are making smart decisions and getting results.* Best place to get a job? Made that list. Best new protected bike lanes? Made that list. Twice. Again. But here’s a recognition that few city and state…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, ed murray, nick licata, streetsblog, streetsie, tom rasmussen
December 8, 2014

Why Seattle should stop waiting for the tunnel and tear down the viaduct now

The megaproject to repair the delayed downtown highway megaproject has been delayed. Again. The tunnel project team had their shot to build the tunnel before the viaduct was torn down. They blew it, and now the viaduct is sinking beyond previously-stated safe limits. We can no longer wait for the tunnel. State and city leaders…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, jean godden, rebertha, wsdot
November 19, 2014

Dexter closed Wednesday night, will reopen in morning with different detour

It’s probably best to just avoid the city center’s busiest bike street tonight. Both the Mercer and Alaskan Way Viaduct Projects will be closing parts of Dexter Ave in South Lake Union starting 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and ending 6 a.m. Thursday morning. The state’s closure will be so worksites near Harrison and Republican can switch…
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tagged: construction, deep bore tunnel, dexter, mercer, mercer mess, wsdot