March 25, 2015:
How about a moratorium on unchecked growth until our region comes to grips with our terrible traffic problems? The fiasco yesterday when an overturned truck completely shut down Southbound 99 and paralyzed our city for over eight hours should be a wake up call. Clearly SDOT was NOT prepared for such an accident to remove a heavy truck in the Bertha pit area known as the cattle chute. If they can’t clear an accident in open space, how will they clear such an accident in the new, enclosed tunnel? In fact the entire tunnel project has paralyzed the city. We need intelligent solutions, not more bike lanes and expensive pie in the sky proposals.
Local politicians shoved the Bertha tunnel down our throats. And the taxpayer and citizens are paying the price in higher taxes and longer commutes. This weekend the 99 viaduct will be closed again for another inspection making travel north again difficult at best. This is the city we’ve allowed politicians and greedy land barons to destroy. I’m for recalling the Mayor of Seattle, the entire City Council and send them packin’ along with the Seattle Tunnel Project idiots for the mess they have created with no end in sight. I’d like to know about the payoffs to local politicians for all this unchecked growth and mayhem they have created. They have turned “America’s most livable city” into a hell hole. – Roger Young
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” Dec 13, 1881- Konstantin Josef Jireček
Mayor defends time, methods used to clear Hwy. 99 fish-truck crash – Seattle Times – March 26, 2015
