'Forward Thrust'
I have been a resident of West Seattle since 1972. I was coordinator of the Forward Thrust Rail Rapid Transit ballot measure of May, 1970. I agree with your editorial of Oct. 12 that we need a Forward Thrust plan for this century.
The Forward Thrust campaign of last century failed in an atmosphere of economic uncertainty.
I appreciated the Herald's report (Oct. 12) that "all of the candidates" at a recent forum now accept what the common man has known for months: that a Yes I-912 vote sends State Route 99 plans "back to the drawing board." Praise be!
Back in 1996 the Washington Department of Transportation estimated a viaduct retrofit at $344 million and then again in 2001 at $720 million.
When Elsbeth takes me shopping at the sooper dooper market she goes her way and I go mine, each with our own four-wheeled buggy. I usually head for the magazine racks, grab a couple of fishing mags and head for the mocha counter, where I grab a comfy chair and have a delightful time.
I can usually get through two magazines before she appears and wants to go home.
This week I got restless and was pushing my empty cart through the store looking for her. She is only hip-high to a new broom and hard to spot.
Next month marks a turning point in the history of the Junction, when Seattle voters will decide whether to kill or continue the monorail project.
The business district could return to its roots as a transportation site. After all, it's been called the Junction since 1907 because the California Avenue streetcar line met the Fauntleroy streetcar, at Alaska Street and California Avenue.
If voters give the monorail their blessing, the Junction will become the southern terminus of a 10.6-mile monorail line.
Results from a Puget Sound Clean Air Agency study reveal emissions from Lafarge Cement are the likely source of an odor that has plagued and puzzled many residents of south Seattle for years.
Since 2001, residents in Highland Park, South Park, Burien and parts of West Seattle have complained of an odd smell that most described as bleach-like.
The architect who designed the newly completed rental housing units at High Point has a valuable perspective on how to design low-income apartments.
"I lived in public housing," he said.
Tyrone Jordan-Oliver is an architect with the Seattle firm Mithun, which won the contract to design the extreme makeover of High Point. Born in New York, Jordan-Oliver grew up in Harlem until he was 8 and then his family moved to Cabrini Green in Chicago, where he lived until he went off to college in Minneapolis.
Friday afternoon, outside a church on 10th Ave. S., officers were called to assist medics with a patient who had been found lying naked on the ground with his rear in the air. The man fought and yelled that he had come to the church to "cleanse his soul of drugs and masturbation." He also said he was high on angel dust. He was transported to Harborview for a mental health exam. Officers report that the man spent much of the ride "talking to Jesus."
When some unwanted guests turned up at a party on 46th SW, they were refused entry.
the BNT trots out that old bogeyman of Ballard Oil, Warren Aakervik,
the Burke-Gilman bicyclist. (Note to new editor: Welcome to
Ballard, where the only controversy older than the Burke-Gilman Trail
is whether lutefisk is food or a divine joke.)
Sadly, the article in this past edition, Trail troubles,
contained nothing new. It simply rehashed the same arguments that were
Dean Wong
It was not a pretty scene. A bus had exploded under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Part of the aging structure had collapsed on top of the bus and other cars. Injured people cried for help as they waited to be rescued.
Fortunately this was only an emergency exercise.
An actual concrete beam was used to simulate a viaduct disaster scenario during Saturday's emergency closure test.
