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When we did our walking tour of the Viaduct last year the engineers in charge managed to convince us that the millimeters-a-month descent of the Viaduct--as portrayed on these little plastic doo-dads--was positively a free-fall. And it was very convincing. We walked off the elevated roadway with our stomachs planted somewhere in our throats and vowed to never walk under that segment of the Viaduct ever again, a plan which has been enforced by chain link fences and a busy construction site ever since. Today, due to some particularly incessant jack-hammering, probably, we inspected the shoring-up work for the first time...
See the picture above.
C'mon guys, can't you pour a little concrete and at least make it look good? Those spindly little posts make it seem like Seattlest's dad could have accomplished the same thing by wedging a couple of 4x4's under there some Saturday afternoon like he did with the porch (and we know how that turned out).
This year's walking tour is coming up, so if you've always wanted to traipse around up there on foot, but aren't into running or charity you have only to send an email.
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I'm sorry. You want me to WALK on the viaduct? Um, no thanks. I only drive on it cause I can do so at 50 MPH and will thus have a chance at dodging falling rubble (or at least doing a Dukes-of-Hazzard style jump off it) when the quake hits. If a quake hits while you're walking on it, what're you gonna do?
yikes.
Why is everyone so scared of the viaduct falling?
It's scientifically unfounded.
I don't think it's that big a menace, but the general similarity to the Cypress Structure in Oakland which failed badly in the 1989 S.F. quake makes an indelible impression.
I recall UW Geology professors who refused to drive on the viaduct. That was back in the mid-90s. Hopefully it falls down soon, as the viaduct is an ear, eye, and lung sore.