Dear Editor:

Seattle, you are about to be downsized.

WSDoT’s Deep Bore Tunnel project manager Ron Paananen warns:

“[The Tunnel] was never intended to carry all the 110,000 vehicles that use the Viaduct today.”

How many 2007 voters processed that!

The newly-released Draft Environmental Impact Statement estimates tunnel use will become constrained to 87,000 daily vehicles, and, if tolled, only 45,000.

(Read and comment to the EIS here http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/)

Completely ignoring where the 23,000 current vehicle trips will disappear to, a tolled Tunnel will further shuck 15,000 “no toll” Tunnel cars off onto I-5 and 18,000 cars onto city streets west of I-5 (i.e. SODO gridlock).

Basically, you might as well sell your West Seattle real estate, or shift all your work and shopping to West Seattle. (The West Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s gamble?)

For an honest vote on this tunnel scheme and to fight to preserve our current capacity and city center SR-99 connnections, download and print your Initiaitive 101 petition now! Go to:

http://scatnow.com/

Thank you,

Craig Keller