Seth

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:45:55 -0800

ALERT: BORING HISTORICAL FACT The reason why Magnolia is such an inacessible place, despite being as connected-by-land to Downtown as Ballard is to Fremont, or Norway is to Sweden, is that our wise city fathers, in their desperation to please railroad magnates, let them build six rows of track in what's now known as Interbay. That track might as well be a river--you can't build through it, and the railroad is guaranteed right-of-way, so we have to go over it with bridges. On the bright side, it keeps the riff-raff out of Magnolia.

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:36:58 -0800

I like the Seattle tradition of starting massive projects without a way to pay for it when you only have a small fraction of the costs and then expect everyone else to pitch in once the financing goes south. It is exactly like if I want to buy a million dollar house with only five hundred bucks in my bank account and everyone else is expected to pitch in when project runs into money problems. So there is the 1. massive light rail project. 2. paying off the never to be built Monorail 3. paying off the Kingdome and corporate welfare for corporate sports projects 4. What ever the hell Paul Allen is doing in South Lake Union 5. Gridlock Greg’s pipedream to have a super expensive super secret under ground car tunnel 6. The failing Seattle Seawall 7. The Floating bridge that needs work or replacing Yeah. I am just glad that my car is registered in Kitsap and we only have one massively bad transportation problem in the Tacoma Narrows bridge now semi-unblocked.

Seattlest: Bridge Over the River Interbay

Seth

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com