Seattleite here, and a member of the large majority of this fair city who wanted nothing to do with this fucking mess well before the first shovel hit dirt. I

Seattleite here, and a member of the large majority of this fair city who wanted nothing to do with this fucking mess well before the first shovel hit dirt. I want the viaduct gone as much as the next person, because when (not if) we have a decent sized earthquake, that thing is collapsing. So it needs to go asap. But there were so many better alternatives to a massive drill that everyone knew was going to turn into this colossal mess. As it stands now we're just lucky it wasn't stuck underneath any buildings because then what? The thing can't go backwards. There is NO contingency plan here for when that inevitably happens in the next 9/10ths of the distance it still needs to go after this initial repair. The only good to come out of this the past 12 months was a really creative (albeit far-fetched) concept for what to do when they decide to just shut the thing down: http://www.bornagainbertha.com/ http://www.bornagainbertha.com/