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Vote No on Seattle Initiative 123
It’s time to vote down one of the most disastrous ballot measures to come before Seattle voters in years: Initiative 123, a rouge attempt to disrupt over a decade of planning and waste millions of dollars in design for Seattle’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Public Space, Roads, Sustainability, Transportation, Walking, Water
Tagged 123, aquarium, ballot, campaign, City Council, cost, design, details, drawings, election, expansion, Friends, garden bridge, Heidi Hughes, I-123, impacts, Initiative, issues, Kate Martin, Lisa Richmond, measure, no, Park My Viaduct, PDA, Pike Place Market, plan, problems, renders, seawall, section, vote no, Waterfront Seattle, yes
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‘Park My Viaduct’ Heads to the Ballot Next Year
Author’s Note: This article was updated September 8, 2015 to correct details of the Initiative 123 campaign and proposal. Last week the Seattle City Council reluctantly approved forwarding the Alaskan Way Viaduct preservation effort to the August 2016 ballot. The … Continue reading
Posted in Parks, Public Space, Transportation
Tagged Alaskan Way, ballot, City Council, DWPDA, earthquake, garden bridge, I-123, infrastructure, Initiative 123, James Corner, Kate Martin, Park My Viaduct, Pike Place Market, project, proposal, replacement, Seattle, tunnel, viaduct, Waterfront Seattle, WSDOT
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The Alaskan Way Viaduct Must Come Down
A group of Seattle residents called Park My Viaduct is campaigning to convert the city’s waterfront freeway into a linear park, akin to New York’s High Line. They are proposing to save 14 blocks of the concrete double-decked structure, put … Continue reading
Posted in Megaprojects, Parks, Public Space, Transportation
Tagged Alaskan Way Viaduct, analysis, construction, criticism, earthquake, High Line, Highway 99, idea, keep, New York, Nisqually, park, Park My Viaduct, parks, participation, plan, preservation, preserve, proposal, public, replacement, seismic, tunnel, waterfront, WSDOT
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