Erica C. Barnett of The Stranger raises an interesting point:
The Great Wall of Chopp can still be beaten, but only if the people
who oppose it—that would be just about everyone—can get
together behind an option instead of bickering among themselves. And
that's a big if—currently, opponents of the Chopp option are
widely divided, with some (like King County executive Ron Sims)
supporting a surface option and others (like King County Council member
Larry Phillips) apparently still favoring a tunnel, which viaduct
planners rejected as prohibitively expensive.
Tunnel advocates want to see a "surface/sub-surface" option on the table, even though it wasn't one of the two "hybrid" alternatives recommended by WSDOT. The P-I editorial board and Joel Connelly agree.
