Special Series
Seattle's Great Viaduct Debate
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A Real No-No
Posted by
Clark Williams-Derry
03/14/2007 09:15 AM
Seattle voters reject a waterfront highway. What's next?
If you live in Seattle, you may have noticed a little thing about some sort of vote...oh, what was it now...oh, that's right, the Viaduct. City voters decided that they wanted no part of a new waterfront highway. No tunnel, no elevated. Period.
Of course, this was just an advisory vote, and the whole election was pretty widely portrayed as a meaningless exercise. Legally, our elected officials are still free to pursue whatever wacky plan they want.
So does the "no and no" outcome really change anything? Well, yes, in fact, it does.
