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Citizens for Seattle Tube is a grass roots organization promoting an innovative traffic strategy to maintain critical commerce links and improve Seattle’s vitality through the construction of an uptown tunnel. For the last decade, City of Seattle and Washington State Department of Transportation officials have struggled with creating a viable strategy for replacing the aging Alaska Way Viaduct spanning nearly two miles of the city’s waterfront. The six lane structure built in the 1950′s carries up to 110,000 cars, trucks and busses on a daily basis. Carrying one quarter of the traffic through the Seattle corridor, the viaduct is a critical link between neighborhoods and business districts north and south of downtown. Without this non-stop expressway, many argue that transportation engineers could produce the traffic jam equivalent of the perfect storm–ultimately leading to a “Berlin Wall effect”. Read the rest of this entry »