Viaduct Replacement Not Getting Any Cheaper While We Sit Around

In the News That Thinking People Already Know department today we're all anticipating the revised cost estimates for the Viaduct replacement. Yeah, yeah, extra, extra, guess what? It's going to cost more than previously quoted. Apparently a crack team of experts got together in a laboratory and placed the previous estimates into a transporter pod like in The Fly, but little did they know that a tiny speck of reality got in there as well. The pod beamed the report and the reality across the room but when it came time to reassemble them the computer combined their DNA into a single entity.

A bit later today that new entity will be publicly unveiled, but since Seattlest has a tenuous -but not altogether dysfunctional- relationship with reality we can tell you what it'll look like right now. The cost estimates will be higher. And they'll look suspiciously like Jeff Goldblum. Since the pre-Goldblumian cost estimates already are causing voters and officials to spit out their water, the new price tag is sure to explode a few heads.

On the other hand those exploded heads might be magically re-rendered into some semblance of orb shape by watching the Mayor's fancy tunnel simulation over at Seattle.gov. Stay tuned for the report that tells us that the cost of the simulation has been revised.