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[randy_byers]

Yesterday I walked to the Harvard Exit to see The Artist. When I first thought of walking, I was thinking I'd go by way of the University District. I wasn't sure what would be the best way to go up the hill, so I checked Google Maps. To my surprise, Google suggested that I walk down Westlake instead and cut over at South Lake Union. This route had

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[daveon]

You must let me know when you're next in the "hood"... that's a wee stretch of the legs downhill from here.

[randy_byers]

Very true, and I had dinner at the Deluxe afterward. They had some good beer on tap. Next time!

[wrdnrd]

I always think of that overpass as "the Cornish shortcut", because the summer we were shifting campus from the hill to downtown i found myself in cars going down that road frequently. Always took me by surprise, because that part of Capitol Hill just doesn't quite seem like the place you'd suddenly find a road going over I-5, but there it is.

[randy_byers]

Exactly. When I saw the instruction "Sharp left on Lakeview," I thought, "What? Where?!"

[kalimac]

I took to the maps to figure out what you were talking about. Interesting.

[randy_byers]

A bridge from one neighborhood to another, over a river of cars.