Seattlest Asks: Will a Viaduct Decision be Made in 2007 2008?
Originally ran on January 3, 2007, and updated for January 2008.
Since 2002 Seattleites have spent the first week of January asking themselves if this is the year a decision will finally be made on the Viaduct.
When the governor announced last in March of 2006 that she would be making a decision by December, it looked like 2006 might finally be the year. Well, it took ten months for her to announce that we should decide, not her.
This decision upset the City Council, who wanted a tunnel, and doesn't didn't seem thrilleded to put the issue before the public. They did so begrudgingly, and in March we shoved it back in their faces, voting against both a re-build and a tunnel.
And here we are.
So, we ask you, on the first week of 2008 2009, will we be:
a) Still wondering about the fate of the viaduct
b) Celebrating a final decision
c) In our car under a pile of concrete
d) Pregnant
