Tag: waterfront

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
December 14, 2015

Who is going to step up and fix the planned waterfront surface highway?

So many of you submitted comments shocked by the gigantic waterfront highway presented in the most recent Waterfront Seattle plans that you triggered a requirement mandating the city study a road design that has fewer lanes to cross between the downtown core and the rebuilt waterfront. The proposed eight-lane road is so wide that people…
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tagged: alaskan way, seattle transit blog, waterfront, zach shaner
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
March 5, 2014

Bikes should fit on the proposed downtown gondola, would you use it?

Imagine a gondola from the waterfront to the convention center with a stop at Pike Place Market. Now imagine that you can bring your bike on board. Would you use it? That’s the plan that Pier 57 and Waterfront Ferris Wheel owner Hal Griffith announced Tuesday. The privately-funded gondola is designed to increase access to…
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tagged: hal griffith, union street, union street gondola, waterfront
February 11, 2014

#ReturnBertha: Why we don’t need to finish the downtown tunnel highway

While we here at Seattle Bike Blog have been very much against the Highway 99 deep bore highway tunnel all along, it was mostly because it is too expensive for what we were going to get. Basically, by investing in transit, I-5 capacity and active transportation, we could tear down the viaduct and have no…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, bertha, deep bore tunnel, waterfront