Vote against the Seattle Tunnel (no on referendum 1)

[stolen_tea]

So, the environmental impact statement finally came out, and it appears that the tunnel plan will be useless - it would cost $4,000,000,000 and provide only a 2% improvement in traffic over just closing the viaduct and doing nothing. That's a waste of our money that we could spend in more efficient ways

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[varina8]

Hear, hear. I usually use the Columbia entrance or the one off Western near Battery. In the old days, I often used the exit onto First in the Sodo District but I believe that one is now gone.

[pielology]

Who's left? Do we want to spend $4,000,000,000 to save them 17 minutes a trip?

People who are driving PERSONAL AUTOMOBILES are left, that's who! People who have enough MONEY to PAY the toll! Those people are RICH AND IMPORTANT and we should orient our entire public policy around them and subsidize their every whim. Forget what the plebes on public transit think, their time is valueless.

If you don't agree that the environmental impact assessment process should be just a rubber stamp confirming the wisdom of the collective gut instinct of a meeting room full of rich white people scratching their asses, you hate progress.

[digitalemur]

Oh man, I just hate me some progress!

Also, Tim Eyman seems to be against the tunnel and he's _never_ on the side of progress.... (And yet for once he's not on the same side as rich white people scratching their asses... or at least not this batch of them, not when he'd prefer his beloved initiative process....

[eveanhei]

And how.

Also, John, do you have a horrified fascination with/like poutine?

[stolen_tea]

It's OK? Sometimes it seems tasty, sometimes not.

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Why do you ask? :)

[eveanhei]

Because I have never tried it, and I know there's a place in north First Hill that serves it, but I don't want to try to consume an entire portion myself. Ergo, I need company.

[stolen_tea]

That sounds like it would be a nice outing some evening! Did you have a time in mind?