Photo of the Day: More Viaduct Chalkings

The Viaduct chalker we've mentioned in the past is still at it. This picture was taken a week ago, but we're down there a lot and are constantly coming across new wisdoms. Actually this person is definitely not the same writer we photographed in the past so maybe the mayor's office has a whole clandestine Ministry of Chalk Propoganda going? Wonder what that crossed out portion was going to say...

Image courtesy of Dawn Marie

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By Dan in Miscellaneous on April 6, 2006 11:30 AM

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mahalie

Certainly associating "green" with the tunnel is a little misleading. The "greenest" thing to do is not replace the viaduct at all, similar to San Francisco's situation after the earthquake. Studies have shown that more roads just equals more traffic, not less congestion. Anyway, maybe they mean green, like if there's a tunnel you could put a park over it? It would definately make for a better waterfront, but most of the reclaimed area would probably become mixed use highrise developments (to help pay for the big expensive tunnel).

Michael

Ha! Those flood maps make me glad I live on Capitol Hill. If we get 14m rise, it certainly becomes a different looking town. I wonder if far-sighted real estate agents will start mentioning the possibility of "future waterfront views" to homeshoppers.

jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Cascadia Scorecard had a rather depressing but fascinating link about showing how rising sea waters is going to wipe out some neighborhoods. All using Google maps

http://flood.firetree.net/

http://cascadiascorecard.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/build_an_ark.html

Dan

Yeah, I don't see how a tunnel is green either, really.

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Any respectable hard core environmentalist would be drawing chalk in support of the People’s Waterfront Coalition. I don’t see how a car tunnel is green.