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3 Proposals For Replacing Seattle's Viaduct

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Felix Sukhenko
12 August 2006 - 9:00am

Washington State Dept. of transportation offers 3 proposals for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

"While the state has decided how it would build a tunnel to replace the viaduct, the shape of a possible new elevated structure is very much is flux.

So much so that the state Department of Transportation (DOT) on Tuesday presented three new ideas to the Seattle City Council, which is on record supporting the tunnel."

These are the ideas presented to the City Council:

1) A new viaduct built similar to the West Seattle Bridge ...
2) A cable-stay bridge ...
3) A side-by-side roadway with a park on top ...

Full Story: State offers 3 decidedly different designs for viaduct
Source: The Seattle Times, August 9, 2006
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Seattle Still Hasn't Studied the Best Alternative for Alaska Way

Submitted by Charles Siegel on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 11:33.

Lots of studies about building freeways, but Seattle still has not done any serious study of the best alternative for rebuilding the Alaska Way, a surface boulevard plus policies to promote a mode shift -- the "streets plus transit" alternative advocated by community groups.

Charles Siegel

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