Duh

Viaduct plan could eliminate chunk of street parking. As if eliminating the Viaduct — even if only "temporarily" over a many-year construction process — won't require dramatic changes in traffic flows. That's one of the reasons why I have been saying for years that the politics of large change are intractable. Does the Seattle Downtown Association really grasp the impact on its own streetscape? etc etc. No, I am still betting on a series of repairs which will justify (in terms of public safety) simply leaving the existing structure in place,