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The viaduct and tunnel cost $18 million to construct (equivalent to $162 million in 2023 dollars) [23] and severed the waterfront from the rest of downtown. [24] [25] The viaduct remained the primary north–south highway in Downtown Seattle until the construction of Interstate 5 (I-5) in the late 1960s. Weekday traffic volumes on the viaduct ...
Renton Sewer Tunnel ETS-4B 12 ft (3.7 m) O.D. 620 ft (190 m) Drill and shoot [1] 1986 Renton Sewer Tunnel ETS-5 12 ft (3.7 m) O.D. 1,820 ft (550 m) Drill and shoot [1] 1986 Renton Sewer Tunnel ETS-6 12 ft (3.7 m) O.D. 1,056 ft (322 m) First use of Earth Pressure Balance Machine in Seattle [1] 1987–1988 Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
The Alaskan Way Viaduct ("the viaduct" for short) [1] [2] [3] was an elevated freeway in Seattle, Washington, United States, that carried a section of State Route 99 (SR 99). The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city's waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km), east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay, and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in ...
The Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet (2,184 m) along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from Bay Street to S. Washington Street. [1] The seawall was being rebuilt in the 2010s as part of a waterfront redevelopment megaproject estimated to cost over $1 billion.
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The plans included creating a tunnel that would run beneath the city's downtown core. The initial phase of demolition and removal of the viaduct began on October 21, 2011. [9] Griffith was concerned that without a large tourist attraction, many waterfront businesses would suffer and go out of business during construction.
Alaskan Way, originally Railroad Avenue, is a major north-south street in Seattle, Washington, that runs along the Elliott Bay waterfront from just north of S. Holgate Street in the Industrial District—south of which it becomes East Marginal Way S.— to Broad Street in Belltown, north of which is Myrtle Edwards Park and the Olympic Sculpture Park.