Tag: highway removal

April 21, 2015

WA bill would ticket people for driving below the speed limit

If you drive slower than the speed limit, you could get a speeding ticket. Well, that is if Spokane’s Sen. Michael Baumgartner has his way. “The slower they drive, the higher the fine,” Baumgartner’s office said in a press release posted by the Herald. “It’s the same way speeding tickets work, but in reverse.” So…
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tagged: highway removal, michael baumgartner
March 29, 2011

StreetFilms: Highway Removal

MBA_Trailer from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Meanwhile, Protect Seattle Now has gathered 29,000 referendum signatures. They need 16,503 of those to be accepted. Pretty good odds. Polls show only 35 percent of people in Seattle want a tunnel. Studies show far fewer than that will ever use it. Let’s ditch the tunnel idea and just tear…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, highway removal, streetfilms, 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