Community Forum on Monday on the Alaskan Way Bored Tunnel
Kendra March 18th, 2009
Were you angry when you read that Mayor Nickels and the governor ignored voters and decided to proceed with the Bored Tunnel option? As a Ballard resident were you concerned when you read that there would not be a Ballard exit along the tunnel?
The Ballard District Council, Queen Anne District Council, and BINMIC Action Committee are co-sponsoring a community forum to consider how the Deep Bored Tunnel option to replace our viaduct can best serve Seattle neighborhoods. Take the opportunity to sort through the facts and make your ideas and opinions known on how to best serve the interest of our community in the face of a project we didn’t want. Panelists members include: reps from WSDOT, City of Seattle, King County, and noted experts in the field of tunnel construction, economics, and traffic engineering. Points to be covered in the forum are:
- How will we access south end destinations as well as downtown Seattle?
- What kind of access will we have to the northern entrance of the tunnel?
- Will trucks be able to use the tunnel or will they use surface streets?
- How will travel times through the corridor be affected?
- Why is an economic impact study so important to decisions affecting the Alaskan Way Viaduct?
Monday, March 23rd
7 – 9 PM
Ballard High School Auditorium
For more information on this forum contact Rob Mattson at 684-4051 or rob.mattson@seattle.gov
To brush up on information about the project to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct before the meeting visit:
I am very excited to share my disappointment with this decision (I was a boulevard fan). I love Boston but i don’t want their big dig.
The pros or cons of the new plan notwithstanding, the will of the voters was respected. The cut-and-cover tunnel plan that was voted down was not chosen.
The vote was not on whether any tunnel should be built; it was an advisory vote on a particular tunnel plan, a cut-and-cover waterfront tunnel with a very different cost structure, construction method, construction impacts, and access points.
The will of the voters against the elevated replacement was similarly respected.
I doubt the will of the voters in this city are really ever respected (safeco, monorail) unless they fall in line with a bad idea (tunnel, anything Eiman gets passed). I am not excited to die under Seattle when the landfill holding up the tunnel crumbles and we get to have our own little Pompei site for future generations. Eh, who am i kidding? The tunnel option will not be done until long after my grandkids have died from old age.
Demian: “The tunnel option will not be done until long after my grandkids have died from old age.”
From your keyboard to God’s ears!!