Tag: deep bore tunnel

March 14, 2011

Must read for Viaduct removal skeptics: The economics of highway removal

In a post full to the brim with incredible economic stats, Elly Blue spells out the economic benefits of urban highway removal. Among the incredible bits of knowledge she reveals: “for the $75 million spent repaving three miles of urban interstate, California could have installed 1,250 miles of some of the country’s most expensive bike…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, elly blue, grist, highway removal
January 31, 2011

Instead of a tunnel, let’s buy every person in our state a bike

As the City Council gets ready to sign agreements for the deep bore tunnel, I feel compelled to yet again put the outrageous cost of this project in perspective. Nicholas Arndt from Tacoma pointed out that for the cost of the deep bore tunnel ($2,000,000,000), you could buy every single Tacoma resident ten $1,000 bicycles…
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tagged: city council, deep bore tunnel, tunnel
December 7, 2010

Is this even a better waterfront?

So this is the dream view of the waterfront after the deep bore tunnel project? Really? And the only big difference between this vision and the surface/transit option is that there is a $2 billion tunnel underground that costs $7 round trip and will only reduce traffic by 47,000 vehicles per day? Oh, and there’s…
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tagged: deep bore tunnel
November 10, 2010

A street between South Lake Union and Queen Anne designed for walking and biking

A cycle track on Thomas St from South Lake Union to Seattle Center could be an option for development, assuming the deep bore tunnel project goes through. Geoffrey Wentlandt of the Department of Planning and Development presented some updated concepts (these are in-process drafts) to the Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) last week of what could…
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tagged: deep bore tunnel, harrison, queen anne, seattle center, south lake union, thomas
September 21, 2010

Clash of the Powerpoints: Waterfront edition – UPDATED

UPDATE: Here’s the winner, as announced by the city this afternoon: James Corner Field Operations. 10 0915 jcfo__seattle cw final public meeting View more presentations from tfooq. The city is set to announce it’s design leadership for the waterfront today. Here’s a side-to-side comparison of their Powerpoint presentations from last week’s evening event downtown (first…
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tagged: deep bore tunnel, waterfront
August 16, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 1: $65 million = World class bike city or 1 mile of freeway

Bikestravaganza rolled into town Saturday evening for a chat at Ada’s Technical Books on Capitol Hill for a night of presentations, zines and discussions about bikes. Hailing from Portland, Joe Biel (filmmaker and founder of Microcosm Publishing) and Elly Blue (activist, organizer and former BikePortland.org editor) are touring the country with a zine library, a…
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tagged: bikestravaganza, deep bore tunnel, lessons from bikestravaganza, mt hood freeway, thompson expressway