Reacting to the bored-tunnel plan, ex-Washington State Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald wrote an excellent column in Crosscut today. He is asking the right questions:
Are we wisely capturing new technology and innovation to build a
transportation system that conserves energy and serves tomorrow’s job
economy? Or are we still trapped in yesterday’s thinking — building
roads for cars of obsolete design to neighborhoods with unsustainable
energy footprints and connecting transit systems into job centers that
are miles away from job growth? And are we improving our vast paid-up
asset of existing transportation corridors and right-of-way to achieve
new gains in capacity and efficiency from what we already own?
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