Tag: waterfront seattle

May 12, 2023

A traffic jam on Seattle’s new Belltown Neighborhood Highway

It is the year 2023, and Seattle just opened a new highway through the dense and walkable Belltown neighborhood. For five years, there was no connection between Alaskan Way on the waterfront and Western Ave in Belltown, and traffic was working about at well as it ever does. But this month, Seattle opened a new…
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tagged: belltown, videos, waterfront seattle, western ave
November 1, 2016

Seattle’s planned waterfront highway takes major step forward. It must be stopped.

It is 2016. Nearly every month this year reached the hottest global average on record. Cities across the world and across our nation are working to remove downtown highways that divide and depress their vital economic and cultural centers. Yet Seattle of all places is still preparing to build a new surface highway between the…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, waterfront, waterfront seattle