We'd adjust to closing I-5

A local pundit wannabe thinks it would be OK if we closed I-5 because we'd adjust.

The I-5 experience blows a hole in the gospel of endless road expansion. You can't argue that closing the viaduct would lead to disaster and then ignore the fact that eliminating half the lanes on a major freeway through Seattle actually made traffic better. And that's without any additional transit service from Metro, the main transit provider in the region. (Sound Transit stepped up service a bit, and still found itself with over-capacity Sounder trains.) Imagine how much smoother the commute on I-5 could have been with expanded transit to take another 20,000 or 30,000 cars off the road.

People adjust to impoverishment and to newfound wealth. People adjusted in concentration camps. We'd also adjust if The Stranger stopped printing. "Adjustment" is hardly a criterion.