Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "The Alaskan Way Viaduct: How Seattle chose the Bertha tunnel alternative" video.

  1. kirokyo — In San Francisco, the Embarcadero viaduct didn’t carry through traffic. The only people who wanted to preserve it were Chinatown merchants. That structure was originally conceived as part of a highway bypassing all of San Francisco from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate along the waterfront. Thankfully, citizen opposition killed that scheme leaving just a little piece of it as an express route to Chinatown. The situation in Seattle was quite different, as the viaduct was primarily a bypass of the central city. The tunnel preserves the bypass function while rehabilitating Alaskan Way. It is clearly the right solution to the problem.
    11
  2. Sahil Prasad — Traffic gets worse primarily because population increases so there is more of it. The tunnel project in Seattle won’t make driving easier, but it will make it safer and will make the waterfront a nicer place.
    4
  3. Jeremiah Jewell — The Embarcadero viaduct in San Francisco didn’t go anywhere but Chinatown.
    1
  4. Bioniking — They finished it, didn’t they? Having problems that can be solved is not a joke.
    1