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Here is a 3d rendering of what a tunnel to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct would look like:

I don't use the viaduct very often, but I know people who do... I'm not sure this is the best option, but it certainly would be cool to see.

Hilarious video of people being stupid in the snow. This is a Western Washington tradition. I hope no one got hurt.

Out shooting today with Laura. First we went to freeway park, now we are headed to uw to shoot some of the cool buildings. FUN!

A while back I was looking into buying a condo/townhome in/around the Seattle area. There is appeal in setting up shop in an interesting neighborhood. The problem was two fold, I had a credit issue (college was tough, and it is repairing) and the cost of living in Seattle is so darn expensive. According to this article over at Seattle Bubble renting is in fact cheaper then buying in the long run (contrary to everything you usually hear). The trouble comes in actually socking the savings away. That's always been my trouble...save save sa... oh look at that shiny new widget.

That is my struggle.

Some graffiti and some Citizen Cope for a tuesday afternoon:

Seattle Transit Blog has a good summation of a summation article in the PI about Cost to expand light rail under debate.

Now my summation: The No campaign is using a questionable way to count the amount of taxes collected for Proposition 1 in order to scare people into thinking that Proposition 1 is TOO expensive.

Rather then go into detail on why, I'll leave you to find the information on the blog posting here

It boils down to... if you are interested in seeing some REAL long term strategy for dealing with traffic in this area then Proposition 1 is the way to make that happen.

It is pretty crazy that in the same case a company would sue a city for trying to provide services that the company refuses to supply and yet claim that collaborating with the city would be anti-competitive.

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/390250299/20080911-t...

More after the jump....