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Originally ran on January 3, 2007, January 2, 2008--updated for January 2009.
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 in March of 2006 that she would be making a decision that 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. In March of 2007, an advisory election was held with voters deciding against both a rebuild and a tunnel.
In January of 2008, Gregoire said that the Viaduct was definitely coming down by 2012. In December state leaders released the final two options, a rebuild and surface option. However, these two plans are not really the final plans, and the tunnel is now back on the table.
And so here we are.
So, we ask you, on the first week of 2008 2009 2010, 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
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Oh Viaduct, I can't wait till you collapse! Then we can vote on whose fault it was.
First the Gregoire post and now the viaduct... are you guys obsessed with pregnancy right now?
@Eco Geek: all Swidler's polls include a "pregnant" option. Make of it what you will.
I think we should follow what San Francisco did with the Embarcadero. Let's make plans for an expensive tunnel, but while we're waiting for someone to come along and fund it we can tear the thing down and build a pedestrian-based street. Then some day we'll look back and say "tunnel? why on earth would we need a tunnel?"
Got this post on my RSS reader -- when you wrote the first one in '07, I'd never even heard of RSS! Or pregnancy!