This morning at 9:00 Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn will be Steve Scher’s guest on KUOW’s Weekday.
Be prepared to hear how much McGinn hates the deep bore tunnel, how much he hates the Seattle City Council for approving agreements with the State, how he is so totally going to veto the agreement, and how much he is going to seriously hate the City Council when they override his veto.
Oh…and happy Valentines Day.
At the rate things are going in North Korea it’ll come in handy as a bomb shelter. McGinn just needs to make sure it’s stocked with crackers and bottled water.
You know what we should have…vote-a-palooza! It’s where you just keep putting everything up to a referendum/initiative and voting again and again and again until you get the vote you want.
We elect the mayor and city council. If you don’t like the things they’re doing, vote for different folks, but PLEASE don’t make me vote 3 or 5 times for more viaduct tunnel bulls**t. ANYTHING we do will have cost issues, functional issues. The tunnel thing is a risk. It’s big and bold. IF it works (no major cost issues) it will be brilliant (traffic flows, waterfront open, noise down, faster pass through for folks trying to ‘get around’ Seattle via 99, etc). IF it fails, it will fail spectacularly. I almost give them credit for having the balls to gamble on something this big.
Avoiding risk is a good way to accomplish nothing.
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And alfalfa pellets for the rabbits.
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I hate haters.
This tunnel curfuffle is excruciatingly boring.
Git ‘er done.
kerfuffle.
oh wait, ha ha ha.
This tunnel curfuffle is excruciatingly boring.
Fine. You pay for it then!
Michael @ 3
And rabbit pellets for the Republicans …
They didn’t even talk about the tunnel until the 51 minute mark, and then only briefly.
billions of dollars for a tunnel that moves less cars than the viaduct and will never ever be able to expand for increased traffic needs.
brilliance….seattle style.