Your State Highway Fell In Our Downtown Core

Once upon a time we were desperate to vote on the Viaduct replacement. Hell yes we want to vote! Our way is the right way, the sane way, and it will prove to be the popular way once everyone in Seattle hears the details of our Teleportation plan and, you know, lives with it for a few years. Then things dragged on forever and we eventually wanted anything but a public vote. We're the public in republic - Let the politicians hash it out and they'll eventually come around to the inevitability of teleport kiosks without our constant attention and concern. We got so attached to the idea of not voting that when the Governor suggested that maybe we should vote after all we were kind of affronted. Look, Gov, grow a pair and mandate that we're going with teleportation. Stop bothering us with this and govern already. Now she's taken the vote back off the table and pretty much laid out how things are going to be. Teleportation is ridiculous, for one.

Which, now, kinda makes us want to vote. It's like a metro pride type of thing. Are we Humptulips or are we Seattle? Don't tell us what to do with our damn highways, we don't care what stately designation you want to give them - They run through our downtown core. VOTE, VOTE VOTE!

Here's the Stranger on the death of the tunnel, and here's the Stranger (form of ECB) again on the death of the tunnel. Both have lots of comments, as does this thing in the P-I. There's also the article proper in the P-I and in the Seattle Times as well as this thing on short-lived Tunnel 2.0 plan from the Times.