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Today is the big day! Big Bertha starts chewing her way through the underground of downtown Seattle - and eventually we will have a car tunnel along the waterfront and we'll finally be able to take down the eyesore that is known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct. We've been watching the preparation for this for a while now, Big Bertha has been parked down near Pioneer Square for the past months getting assembled and ready to go. Here's to a great success, and here's hoping it's nothing like Boston's Big Dig. Yikes.
This marks the beginning of what will eventually be an incredible and well deserved waterfront renovation in Seattle. We have lived for so long with a "working" waterfront and waited patiently while idiotic Seattle government types have spent endless amounts of money on consultants to FINALLY after 40 years get moving and get something going.
I've mentioned before that the plans for the new waterfront are fantastic, and as a Seattle downtowner, I'm super super excited to see it all come together. Check out Friends of Waterfront Seattle for more information about the plans. Take a look at the core projects in this brochure, there is an excellent explanation of what the segments of the plan are and why. A lot of really involved Seattleites have worked really long and hard on this plan, and I have to say it feels like they have thought of all the things that are important to make Seatte a great waterfront city to live in and a great waterfront city for people to visit.
Good luck Big Bertha - and Buon Appetito!
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