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Posted Thu, Feb 9, 2 a.m.
After two years of fighting and frustration, the biggest winner from the voters' decision in favor of the waterfront tunnel could be the project's biggest opponent.
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Posted Sat, Dec 24, 9 p.m.
It's okay to be grateful around this time of year, so here are some suggested causes for lifting your wassail bowl.
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Posted Wed, Dec 14, 2 a.m.
Seattle's first-term mayor is getting down to last chances to create a new image of himself as someone fighting for the people on issues where agreement is possible.
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Posted Fri, Dec 9, 2 a.m.
Crosscut has learned of three striking proposals that would immediately draw more world attention to Seattle, enriching its brand.
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Posted Tue, Nov 29, 2 a.m.
A good design requires consciousness of the city's realities, the real spatial, temporal, social, and ecological contexts. Speaking of temporal, has anyone noticed it's November, with everything that means for being outdoors along the water in Seattle?
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Posted Wed, Nov 23, 2 a.m.
Seattle residents care about their waterfront, and we bring our own quirks. Taking those factors into account are critical to making James Corner's final plan into something that will soar.
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Posted Tue, Nov 8, 2 a.m.
The success of some New York public spaces such as the High Line and Bryant Park may be leading the architect for Seattle's proposed Waterfront Park to crowd and over-program a space that cries out for serenity and introspection.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
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Posted Fri, Sep 2, 2 a.m.
The basic outlines of the ambitious park, really four big parks connected by a promenade, are now emerging. There are very sensible design decisions being made, but can the city pull off such a spectacular plan?
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Posted Mon, Aug 22, 2 a.m.
Last week's vote boosted the tunnel, but it also made it harder to rethink the 520 expansion.
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Posted Tue, Aug 16, 11 p.m.
Voters say "yes" to the tunnel, giving the project the sanction it needed from the people. Now comes that hard part.
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Posted Wed, Aug 10, 2 a.m.
In getting late-deciders to vote, it's time to play on negative emotions and to paint dire pictures. Here's a tour of that picture gallery, including a new horror show painted by Sen. Ed Murray.
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Posted Fri, Aug 5, 9:10 a.m.
The tunnel solution is essential to keep I-5 flowing during construction of a Viaduct replacement, thus serving the industrial "triangle" that powers the region.
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Posted Wed, Aug 3, 2 a.m.
A master strategist and former deputy mayor talks about the tunnel, redistricting, and Seattle politics. Ceis is pushing pragmatism, but how pragmatic is a risky tunnel?
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Posted Tue, Aug 2, 2 a.m.
How the Viaduct issue has become such a high-stakes, unending, deeply meaningful battle over the future of Seattle.
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Posted Mon, Aug 1, 2 a.m.
These short inner-city viaducts are remnants of a stillborn downtown freeway system. The city continues to demonstrate that if auto routes are blocked, traffic and people will find other ways.
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Posted Sun, Jul 24, 11:45 a.m.
National belt-tightening is starting to pinch at the local level, and you can expect large capital projects such as the waterfront tunnel and Sound Transit to face skeptical review.
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Posted Tue, Jul 19, 2 p.m.
Six prominent environmentalists argue against the proposed deep-bore tunnel under downtown Seattle. They maintain that a streets/transit/I-5 solution creates more jobs, addresses our mobility needs more quickly and cheaply, and sets us on the path to a livable, post-carbon future.
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Posted Tue, Jul 19, 2 a.m.
The public doesn't like current tolling strategies, and they aren't yet ready to accept more aggressive ones. That leaves our questionable mega-projects in a bind.
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Posted Thu, Jul 7, 2 a.m.
Four prominent environmentalists argue for protecting the waterfront from a new wall of cars and removing the unsafe viaduct. Approving the tunnel plan on the Aug. 16 ballot will give back the waterfront to the city, while improving the air and reducing noise.
READ MORE 46 COMMENTSPosted Wed, Dec 7, 11 a.m. 2011
Maybe the money for a viaduct museum helps Pioneer Square. Costco's initiative faces a court challenge. McGinn talks police reform. And the owner of the one-time ferry Kalakala speaks of the "global" importance of the dilapidated ship.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 27, 11 a.m. 2011
Gregoire wades into more budget cuts; finger pointing at Monroe Penitentiary; rising count for homeless students in Seattle Schools; an unadmiring portrait of the powerful Kemper Freeman and family; and a Viadoom report.
MOREPosted Tue, Jul 19, 2 a.m. 2011
If Seattle voters reject a tunnel, the fight will be on: a new viaduct or a transit-surface solution?
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 14, 10:30 p.m. 2011
Does defeating the tunnel by encouraging doubts about tolls do larger damage to an environmental argument?
MOREPosted Fri, Jun 3, 4:15 p.m. 2011
Gov. Chris Gregoire says demolition of the southern portion of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the most at risk in an earthquake, can occur six months early.
MOREPosted Wed, Apr 13, 2 a.m. 2011
The City Council, resolutely in favor of a waterfront tunnel, was joined last year by an ally and friend of the anti-tunnel mayor. So, what about those times when everybody else is clearly working on something else, and O'Brien is left out?
MOREPosted Wed, Mar 30, 8:22 p.m. 2011
The City Council squirms and delays on the issue of the anti-tunnel referendum, since now is the time when challengers to incumbents must rise or fall.
MOREPosted Tue, Mar 29, 12:22 p.m. 2011
An Elway poll of city voters says that his numbers are negative by a ratio of more than 2-to-1. Even tunnel opponents aren't giving him good marks overall.
MOREPosted Sat, Mar 12, 6 p.m. 2011
In pushing for a referendum on the tunnel, Mayor McGinn may have crossed a line in his insurgency against the political order. Two modes of coping with his challenge, patience and leave-it-to-the-council, seem to have run their course. What's next?
MOREPosted Wed, Feb 16, 7 p.m. 2011
Waterfront tunnel supporters from the Viaduct Replacement Stakeholders group give McGinn a history lesson on how the tunnel plan was adopted, and why it's the best solution.
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