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Gregoire: 'Watch me' tear down the viaduct
Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | Chris McGann

Posted on 01/06/2008 5:06:49 PM PST by Lorianne

OLYMPIA-- With or without Seattle's approval, the state will tear down the earthquake-damaged Alaskan Way Viaduct in 2012, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday.

"It's coming down in 2012. I'm taking it down -- the middle," she said, referring to the elevated portion of the span that runs roughly from Battery Street Tunnel to Pioneer Square, which has been the most vexing and controversial piece of the transportation puzzle.

"That's the timeline. I'm not going to fudge on it. And if we don't have some alternative by then, boy are we going to have a mess on our hands because it's coming down."

Asked if she, as governor, could trump the state's largest city and county and unilaterally tear down a highway that carries more than 100,000 vehicles a day through the heart of Seattle, Gregoire said:

"Yeah, watch me."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: gregoire; landuse; propertyrights; transportation
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1 posted on 01/06/2008 5:06:50 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Libertina; rahbert; luckymom; Paperdoll; gandalftb; acoulterfan; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; ...
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Say WA? Evergreen State ping

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

2 posted on 01/06/2008 5:10:58 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Lorianne

I think they should tear it down. It’s an ugly scar on what could be very valuable waterfront property.


3 posted on 01/06/2008 5:13:24 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Lorianne
The viaduct traffic would have to be dispersed and otherwise addressed through a wide swath of Seattle.

I'm not familiar with it but this sounds rough.
4 posted on 01/06/2008 5:17:32 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Lorianne
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5 posted on 01/06/2008 5:17:48 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Lorianne

What a ridiculous statement the governor has made. If she is as tough as she is coming off why doesn’t take care of DSHS or roll some heads at the Port of Seattle for wasting 100 million of OUR tax dollars?


6 posted on 01/06/2008 5:19:11 PM PST by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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To: Lorianne

I hope while she’s attempting to tear it down, it falls on her useless fat head.


7 posted on 01/06/2008 5:22:26 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: kinoxi
I'm not familiar with it but this sounds rough.

Let the libs take the bus then.

This is really a bid for the tunnel, Seattle's version of the Big Dig (at the eastern end of I-90) located right at the western terminus of I-90, with huge cost overruns & federal bucks flowing like water into local pockets, and the federal government fixing the crumbling seawall that the City of Seattle has ignored for way too long, preferring to channel that money along with road-maintenance funds into typically wasteful liberal feel-good do-nothing projects.

Infrastructure is the first thing let go when libs take over.

8 posted on 01/06/2008 5:24:02 PM PST by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
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To: Lorianne
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9 posted on 01/06/2008 5:25:12 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Lorianne

Utter bull$hit.

Anyone who has ever been to Seattle knows just how ludicrous a statement that is out of Gregoire. That’s nothing but a lame attempt at throwing some red meat to a group of potential campain donators.


10 posted on 01/06/2008 5:25:35 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Clint Williams

That makes sense.


11 posted on 01/06/2008 5:26:53 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: sionnsar
Wrong photo. This was the one I was looking for:

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12 posted on 01/06/2008 5:29:42 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Bean Counter
That’s nothing but a lame attempt at throwing some red meat to a group of potential campain donators.

Agreed.

13 posted on 01/06/2008 5:30:40 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Lorianne

Sounds like son of Big Dig.

Big Dig achieved its primary mission of transfering taxpayer dollars to politically well positioned unions and contractors.

How much have Bechtel and construction unions donated to Fraudoire?


14 posted on 01/06/2008 5:32:13 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Lorianne

Ms. Gregoire ... Tear Down This Road.


15 posted on 01/06/2008 5:32:27 PM PST by sono (Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.)
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To: Lorianne

Everytime I think about the Washington State governor’s election, I am reminded of the Chris Farley movie, Black Sheep.


16 posted on 01/06/2008 5:36:06 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Lorianne

Everytime I think about the Washington State governor’s election, I am reminded of the Chris Farley movie, Black Sheep.


17 posted on 01/06/2008 5:36:09 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Vicki

This woman is an idiot. The Viaduct should come down when the earthquake hits.....then rebuilt with low interest FEMA money


18 posted on 01/06/2008 5:39:32 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: sportutegrl

I saw it twice also.


19 posted on 01/06/2008 5:43:20 PM PST by Former War Criminal
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To: BurbankKarl
This woman is an idiot. The Viaduct should come down when the earthquake hits.....then rebuilt with low interest FEMA money

But she might lose the 138-odd liberal "votes" that put her tally over the top in the last of the recounts (the ones where they kept saying "Oh my gosh, lookee here, here's another bag we missed on the last count.").

20 posted on 01/06/2008 5:46:05 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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