{"id":2057,"date":"2016-04-18T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2016-04-18T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:16:28","slug":"heres-hoping-the-viaduct-collapses-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Hoping the Viaduct Collapses Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/04\/15\/23962138\/the-viaduct-will-be-closed-for-two-weeks-starting-april-29\">closed<\/a> while Bertha tunnels under it, and given that there already have been subsidence and sinkhole issues caused by the tunneling, the chance of collapse-inducing damage is greater while at the same time the chance of the collapse actually hurting anyone is far lower.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the Viaduct is on its last legs anyhow, it&#8217;s either going to collapse before it is demolished or be demolished before it collapses. And given how it&#8217;s already in territory that was previously proclaimed to be unsafe, but retroactively claimed to be safe, because the state doesn&#8217;t want to tear it down without a replacement in place, its best that the procrastinating be ended now.<\/p>\n<p>And given that the tunnel project was always an unrealistic boondoggle, it&#8217;s better that it be cancelled sooner rather than later, as a result of its subsidence damaging an obsolete viaduct as opposed to a perfectly good and non-obsolete downtown building or two.<\/p>\n<p>And once the viaduct is out of service for good, Seattle will then be compelled get busy with the process of figuring out how to live without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be closed while Bertha tunnels under it, and given that there already have been subsidence and sinkhole issues caused by the tunneling, the chance of collapse-inducing damage is greater while at the same time the chance of the collapse actually hurting anyone is far lower. Given that the Viaduct is on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}